{"id":368816,"date":"2024-02-18T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=368816"},"modified":"2024-02-19T00:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T00:03:02","slug":"doco-reveals-eddie-didnt-trust-his-own-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=368816","title":{"rendered":"Doco reveals Eddie didn't trust his own players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wallabies coach Eddie Jones<\/a> misled his players as well as the media during the Will Skelton injury shenanigans at the Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n

\ufeffJones named Skelton as his captain for last year's historic loss to Fiji<\/a> despite the giant lock suffering a serious calf injury in training.<\/p>\n

Despite not training or being part of the captain's run team photo, the Wallabies continued the charade right up until kickoff in Saint-Etienne when Richie Arnold replaced him in the starting team.\ufeff<\/a><\/p>\n

All three episodes of the brand new Stan Original Documentary Series<\/strong><\/em> The Wallabies – Inside Rugby World Cup 2023<\/strong><\/em><\/a> premiere February 22, only on Stan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/p>\n

Such tactics are common in professional sport as coaches try to mess with the opposition and their game plans.<\/p>\n

\ufeffBut Stan's behind the scenes documentary 'The Wallabies – Inside Rugby World Cup 2023<\/em>',<\/a> reveals that the anxious players were also kept in the dark.<\/p>\n

"I'm not going to tell them (Skelton is out) because I don't want it out to the media," Jones tells team psychologist Corinne Reid, who had informed him the players wanted to know who was playing.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\ufeff<\/strong> 'No hardness' – Eddie's savage whack for Wallabies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Schmidt defection stings 'tender' All Blacks ace<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE:<\/strong> Alaalatoa pitches to captain Wallabies under Schmidt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/p>\n

"We say Will's out, immediately the players will run to their agents. So at the moment, I'd rather them be in the grey a bit and then I can let them know tomorrow. So let's be clear about this. We'll name Skelton in the team today and just go about our business."<\/p>\n

Fiji beat Australia 22-15 and Skelton would go on to miss the entire World Cup.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"Will Skelton, I blame myself for that (injury)," Jones says.<\/p>\n

"I think we got the order of training wrong. So that's my fault."<\/p>\n

\ufeffThe three part series premieres on Thursday and features unprecedented access into the team's inner sanctum.<\/a><\/p>\n

The documentary also sheds light on two of the most infamous \ufeffJones storylines in 2023: his secret Zoom interview with Japan and his rant at the media before flying out of Sydney Airport.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/p>\n

Jones repeatedly denied the Sydney Morning Herald's bombshell report before being unveiled as Japan coach in December.<\/p>\n

"Well there's no truth to it," Jones says during the World Cup.<\/p>\n

"At the end of the day, once you get on the bad side of the press, which I have here, you know, they're going to keep going for you. And so therefore when they think they've got something on you, they'll go for you hard and that happened."<\/p>\n

\"Jones<\/p>\n

Veteran prop James Slipper admitted that the story \ufeffwas "probably" a distraction for some of his teammates as the Wallabies failed to reach the quarter-finals for the first time.<\/p>\n

Jones also doubled down on his criticism of the media, who dared to ask questions about his axing of Wallabies greats Michael Hooper and Quade Cooper.<\/p>\n

"I thought it was ridiculous, mate, and it shows the paucity of Australian rugby journalism at the moment," Jones said.<\/p>\n

\"Eddie<\/p>\n

"Australian rugby's in a bad spot and you've got a couple of idiots parading as journalists asking questions about players that have been left out.<\/p>\n

"We're about to go to a World Cup with a bunch of young players who deserve the opportunity.<\/p>\n

"So I thought it was completely out of context and completely inappropriate."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wallabies coach Eddie Jones misled his players as well as the media during the Will Skelton injury shenanigans at the Rugby World Cup. \ufeffJones named […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336782,"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\/368816"}],"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=368816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368819,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368816\/revisions\/368819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/336782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}