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‘For the greater good’: What Wallabies great told Eddie Jones’ team
Rugby World Cup winner George Gregan has gone inside the Wallabies’ inner sanctum as Eddie Jones’ young side prepares to begin their quest for the prestigious Webb Ellis Cup.
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Following a disastrous Rugby Championship campaign, and a heartbreaking defeat to the All Blacks in Dunedin, the Wallabies said au revoir to Australia as they set their sights on France.
The opportunity to etch their names into history awaits the young Wallabies, and it all starts in just over a week’s time against Georgia in Paris.
As they ready themselves for what is widely considered to be an unlikely charge at the sports top prize, the Wallabies have followed “traditional” by inviting a series of legends into their camp.
World Cup-winning captain John Eales has visited the team, and former Australia halfback George Gregan has also shared some knowledge.
“We had George Gregan in earlier in the week and he said, ‘You don’t get experience until someone backs you’,” Wallaby flanker Fraser McReight told reporters.
“For us, we’ve got the backing through Eddie and it fills me with confidence, I know that, and I know if it’s doing it for me it’s going for the rest of the group.
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“We all love each other and are super excited, I know I’m super excited, to rip in with these lads.”
Gregan has “won pretty much everything under the sun” in rugby union, including the 1999 Rugby World Cup alongside aforementioned skipper John Eales.
The former Wallaby is one of the greatest halfbacks to have ever played the game and is widely considered one of the best rugby players to have donned Australian gold.
While wins continue to allude the Aussies, Gregan shared a “really special” moment with the Wallabies after their 41-17 loss to World Cup hosts France in Paris last Sunday.
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“George has come in, he’s won a World Cup, he’s won a Bledisloe (Cup), he’s won pretty much everything under the sun that we want to do and achieve,” McReight added.
“As an ex-captain, as a successful captain and player, he just told us his rugby journey and where that took (him) and what it made for him in terms of the sacrifices he had to do, and the growing and the adapting and the sacrifices that he had to do for the greater good.
“We had a beer with him after the game and he was in the changeroom, it was really special for us.
“It’s a pretty cool thing that we get to be a part of.”
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Should have been 0-0 and a message from SR CEO to both teams - “don’t worry about turning up next year”.
3 Go to commentsGreat work Owen Franks. A great of this team, scoring his first try for the Crusaders since 2010.He was beaming, justifiably. A fine win, he and the rest did the job up front.
1 Go to commentsDanny Care. Lang in die tand.
1 Go to commentsBig empty stadium does nothing for atmosphere but munster are playing well with solid performance
1 Go to commentsYes, Fiji can win the World Cup! With that belief plus their christian faith🙏 and hard work it is achievable. Great article. Ian Duncan Fiji resident 1981-84
2 Go to commentsInteresting comments about Touch. England’s hosting the Touch World Cup this year and the numbers have exploded since their last World Cup in 2019, something like 70% more teams and 40 nations taking part. And England Touch have made a big thing about how many universities are in their BUCS University Touch Championship as well as Sport England membership. Can only see this growing even more domestically as more people become aware of it
10 Go to comments“Cortez Ratima is light years ahead of anyone on current form, while TJ Perenara has also skyrocketed into contention following the unfortunate injury to the talented Cam Roigard.” At last some sanity. Hitherto so many pundits have been wittering on about Finlay Christie to the point one wondered if they were observing a FC in a parallel universe where the FC they saw wasnt just the mediocre Shayne Philpott project of Fosters hapless AB reign in the real world. Ratima, Perenara and Fakatava are the ONLY logical 9s for Razor now Roigard is crocked.
3 Go to commentsThis game was just as painful as the Hurricanes game. It was real fork-in-the-eye stuff.
3 Go to commentsNow if they could just fire the Crusaders ground PA guy who likes to play his dance music and just loves the sound of his own voice the entire game, even when play is going on. And I thought their brass band thing of a few years ago was bad.
5 Go to commentsUnfortunately when you lose by far the two form players this season in Roigard and Aumua, you're left replacing two game changing Tanks with a couple of pea-shooters. Which is also about the speed of TJs pass.
4 Go to commentsBit rich coming from the guy with zero loyalty to anyone or any team, including happily taking a players place in a league world cup squad because well, SBW wanted to play in it and thus an already named player got told he was no longer going. And airing stuff like this, which may or may not be true, doesn't exactly say you're a stand up guy either SBW. Just looking to keep his name in lights as usual.
38 Go to commentsTamati Tua. …the Taniwha NPC midfielder. Ollie Sapsford, Hawkes Bay NPC midfielder…doing well
4 Go to commentsFiji deserve to be in the rugby championship, fans love seeing the Fijian national team play, the Fijian Drua is a wonderful idea but the players can still be stolen to play for NZ and AUS…
2 Go to commentsThe first concern for this afternoon are wheather forecast…
1 Go to commentsWhy cant I watch Rugby games please?
1 Go to commentsBeautiful shot from Finau, end of story. Gutted for Shaun Stevenson though.
4 Go to commentsThe Chiefs definitely didn’t win ugly. They had the superior scrum, a dominant lineout, and their defence was excellent once the Waratahs scored their two tries (thanks to some lucky refereeing calls mind you). They put pressure on the Waratahs lineout throughout the game, and the mind boggles as to why the referee did not award a yellow card or a penalty try against the Waratahs for repeated scrum infringements on their own try line before Narawa’s first try. And the Chiefs were slick with their passing and running angles on attack. It was a dominant performance all round, even with many questionable refereeing decisions.
1 Go to commentsWasnt late. Ref 2 assistants andTMO all saw it so who are you to say it was?
4 Go to commentsAre the Brumbies playing the Blues twice in a row?
4 Go to commentsBig difference from the Saders. Forwards really muscled up and laid a solid platform. Scooter brought some steel and I liked the loosie combination. Newell has been rather disappointing this season but stepped up big time - happy also to see Franks dot down. He should do that more often! Reihana had a good game and there seems to be more flair and invention with him in the saddle. McNicoll plays well from the back and is reliable plus inventive when he joins the line. Keep it up chaps!
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