{"id":305696,"date":"2025-11-24T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305696\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:13:12","slug":"coach-eddie-jones-tells-his-japanese-rugby-players-to-beef-up-after-bruising-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305696\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Eddie Jones tells his Japanese rugby players to beef up after bruising tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Coach Eddie Jones on Monday warned his Japan players they had to bulk up and train harder if they wanted to compete on rugby\u2019s world stage after another bruising European tour.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jones\u2019 side were thrashed by South Africa and Ireland before losing narrowly to Wales and eking out a last-gasp win over Georgia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The tour completed Jones\u2019 second year back in charge of Japan and followed heavy defeats to England, New Zealand and France in 2024.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The feisty Australian said he wanted to see candidates for the national team working harder when the domestic Japan Rugby League One season kicked off next month.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe had a young guy coming in [to the squad] and in five months he\u2019s put on five kilograms of muscle mass, but he shouldn\u2019t need us to encourage him to do that,\u201d Jones said after returning with the team to Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Japan\u2019s Kippei Ishida (middle left) and Wales\u2019 Josh Adams compete for a high ball. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0bf5e4ab-348e-46d9-bb49-59521c8edcd9_5c9531bd.jpg\" title=\"Japan\u2019s Kippei Ishida (middle left) and Wales\u2019 Josh Adams compete for a high ball. Photo: AFP\"\/>Japan\u2019s Kippei Ishida (middle left) and Wales\u2019 Josh Adams compete for a high ball. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe need players in League One to understand that, firstly, you need a body to play Test match rugby, and to do that you\u2019ve got to train appreciably harder than they\u2019ve been training.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coach Eddie Jones on Monday warned his Japan players they had to bulk up and train harder if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,28588,1208,2592,6782,26779,941,174301,1736,760,15131,1183,85,11804,12812],"class_list":["post-305696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eddie-jones","tag-england","tag-france","tag-georgia","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-japan-rugby-league-one","tag-new-zealand","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-world-cup","tag-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-tokyo","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}