Wallabies coach Eddie Jones says he “fell asleep straight away” after his gorgeous World Cup departure press convention and has no regrets about his actions, remaining defiant that his winless staff is the fitting one to succeed.
After deciding on one of many youngest squads ever to take to the match in France, Jones, who’s teaching the Wallabies for a second time, blasted the “pessimism” of the native media and boarded the aircraft after what he known as the “worst press conference ever”.
He even declared the journalists in attendance ought to “give themselves an uppercut”.
The Wallabies had misplaced 4 straight video games earlier than flying to France, together with a house loss to Argentina and an MCG smashing by the All Blacks, and have been once more humbled by the World Cup hosts final weekend within the ultimate warm-up sport.
But Jones stood by the tongue-lashing he delivered at Sydney airport, declaring he was simply being “honest” after a barrage of criticism.
“I fell asleep straight away,” he informed Sydney radio station 2GB from France on Thursday.
“I never have any regrets mate. You know, I try to just be as honest as I can be with my feelings and emotions and that’s how I felt at that time.
“We’ve obviously had a disappointing lead-up to the World Cup, but we’re here now, we’ve got a good young team with a new captain in Will Skelton and we’re ready to go.”
Expectations for the Wallabies on the World Cup have been lowered additional after the great 41-17 loss to France in Paris.
But Jones, who has continued to declare his facet goes to develop right into a staff Australia might be happy with, is adamant there have been extra positives that ought to result in hope for the opening World Cup conflict with Georgia subsequent week.
“It’s really interesting against France,” he stated.
“Our best moments were better than France, but our worst moments are far worse than France and it’s all about consistency and keep doing the simple things well, and at the moment, we don’t have the capacity to do that, but we’re slowly building.
“We’ve just got to be more consistent and that comes from a bit of mental toughness, that comes from the team fighting together in difficult situations.
“It also comes from our capacity to repeat skills under pressure and training is our avenue to improve. I can tell you we’re training at the absolute optimum we can and we’ll get to the World Cup and we’ll be in great condition.”
Source: www.news.com.au
