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At 1.98m and 113kg, Marvin Orie suddenly seems like a baby among the big boys the Wallabies are planning to unleash against the Springboks in the two fierce rivals' Rugby Championship opener at Loftus on Saturday, but he's not about to give an inch.
Upbeat Wallabies coach Eddie Jones on Friday said he intends to kick off his reign by creating history against world champions South Africa in Pretoria in a week's time, with a winning mentality key to his new-look Australia.
Wallabies coach Eddie Jones has made it quite clear that he does not share the antipathy of many of his compatriots towards tactical kicking and said his team would put boot to ball when circumstances demanded it. Perhaps because of the dominance of the rugby league code, where possession is sacrosanct, kicking away the ball in the hope of deriving an advantage is one of the most frequently heard criticisms of the 15-man game in Australia. Michael Cheika, who led the Wallabies to the last two World Cups, decided that tactical kicking was not part of the identity of the Australian game, which he saw as running rugby.
If Eddie Jones was looking for winners when he started thinking about his Wallabies squad for the World Cup, the call to leviathan lock Will Skelton would have been one of the first he made.
Wallabies coach Eddie Jones has confirmed that lock Izack Rodda will miss the Rugby Championship and World Cup after aggravating a foot injury in training this week.
Suspended Wallabies playmaker Kurtley Beale said on Thursday "the truth will come out" after he pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at a Sydney pub, reports said.
Former Wallabies flanker Phil Waugh was named chief executive of national governing body Rugby Australia on Tuesday, three months before the World Cup.
Tom Robertson's Rugby World Cup dream ended on Thursday after a knee injury but fellow Wallabies Izack Rodda and Hunter Paisami will return this weekend from long-term layoffs.