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We’ll see if Jones has made any progress for World Cup

Eddie Jones

With player welfare supposedly at the forefront of everyone’s minds, who would believe the way international rugby tours are structured nowadays?
Why would you expect a squad of players, who have just finished an eight-month season, to travel across the world, have a few days training and then straight into what is still the most physically and mentally demanding embodiment of the game, international rugby.
The reason that tours used to include a number of fixtures against provinces or county sides was partly to enable players to acclimatise to conditions that they were not accustomed to pla...

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