Watch: A shell-shocked Eddie Jones reacts to Wallabies rout

A clearly shaken Eddie Jones has outlined the key fixes the Wallabies need to make if they are get ‘back in the money’ after a disasterous opening day at the office for the new head coach.

Australia suffered a crushing 43-12 defeat against South Africa in Pretoria, extending their miserable 60-year winless streak at Loftus Versfeld.

A downcast Jones told Stan Sport that he believes the Wallabies can get ‘back in the money’ against Argentina after what was a clearly disappointing day at the office.

“We just got beaten to the punch. We really got beaten in the set piece. We got beaten on the game line, we got beaten in the air and when you don’t win any of those contests, it’s gonna be a long day in the office, which it was for us today.

“There wasn’t too many positives today. But we went out there to play with a bit of pace and we were able to do that for 20 minutes but we weren’t able to convert any of the pressure we we put on the Springboks into points and then and then of course, the Springboks came back and every time they got an opportunity, they converted into points.

Jones was asked about the Wallabies’ worrying inability to win collisions against a super physical South African side.

“Yeah, well, it starts with the set piece. Once they’re on top of the set piece, and then they’ve got their big ball runners, and there’s no better team than South Africa, once they get an edge, to keep playing on top of you.

“And look, you know, we’ve got we’ve got to identify the two or three areas and one certainly is the consistency of our setpiece. There are possibly opportunities for us to be more dominant in the lineout and we didn’t take advantage of that. Our scrum definitely needs to be a continual work on and then we’ve got to find ways to get over the gain line. So if we fix those against Argentina and we’ll be back in the money.”

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Jones did single out Marika Koroibete for praise, the winger scoring a scintallating try in the opening minutes of the contest. He also lauded Carter Gordon who did well a difficult situation coming off the bench.

“I thought Marika was absolutely outstanding you know and and Carter coming on in his first test in a in a difficult situation show that he’s going to be upload future.”