{"id":322489,"date":"2023-08-09T20:58:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T20:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=322489"},"modified":"2023-08-09T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T22:00:08","slug":"jones-makes-brutal-world-cup-call-on-wallabies-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=322489","title":{"rendered":"Jones makes brutal World Cup call on Wallabies great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/australia-wallabies\" title=\"W\ufeffallabies\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">W\ufeffallabies<\/a> coach <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/eddie-jones\" title=\"Eddie Jones\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eddie Jones<\/a> has made the brutal decision to axe <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/michael-hooper\" title=\"Michael Hooper\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Hooper<\/a> ahead of the Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/rugby-union\/michael-hooper-left-out-of-wallabies-squad-in-major-world-cup-shock-20230809-p5dvaq.html\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"The Sydney Morning Herald reports\">The Sydney Morning Herald reports<\/a> Hooper was informed on Wednesday he will not be on the plane to France for the sport&#x27;s showpiece event.<\/p>\n<p>Hooper, 31, captained the Wallabies at the last World Cup, and made his Cup debut in 2015, but it appears he won&#x27;t be seen at the tournament again.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe 125-Test great, and current Wallabies co-captain, has been struck down by a calf injury and Jones has opted not to risk him.<\/p>\n<p>The full 33-man Wallabies squad \ufeffwill be unveiled on Rugby Heaven on Stan Sport at 6.30pm (AEST) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wide World of Sports will publish the full squad here as soon as it is named.\ufeff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"caad4d3a-c35a-4144-9f6d-93db980b3a70\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/caad4d3a-c35a-4144-9f6d-93db980b3a70\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"2760\" data-height=\"1553\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>W\ufeffallabies coach Eddie Jones has made the brutal decision to axe Michael Hooper ahead of the Rugby World Cup. The Sydney Morning Herald reports Hooper <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=322489\" title=\"Jones makes brutal World Cup call on Wallabies great\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":322492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322495,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322489\/revisions\/322495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/322492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}