Hunter Paisami is currently sidelined but Len Ikitau was included in Jones’s first training squad with Andrew Kellaway, Suliasi Vunivalu and exciting youngsters like Max Jorgensen and Mark Nawaqanitawase. Marika Koroibete, poised to play for the World XV against the Barbarians on May 28 at Twickenham, scored a hat-trick for Saitama Wild Knights in the semi-final of Japan’s domestic competition just this weekend. Having fought back to fitness following long-term injuries, Cooper rupturing his Achilles tendon last August and Kerevi suffering a serious ACL issue that same month, the pair could end up as the front-line 10-12 duo over the early part of Jones’s tenure.Īustralia will not be wanting for dynamic backs. He adores the cut and thrust of World Cups, and picking Quade Cooper and Samu Kerevi in the famous black and white hoops is a canny move as the tournament creeps closer. Whether or not that delicious scenario arises later this year, Jones is sure to look back on overseeing the Barbarians against the World XV as a useful exercise. There already seems to be an air of inevitability about Eddie Jones coming up against Steve Borthwick and England on a mid-October weekend in Marseilles for a World Cup quarter-final.
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