{"id":642265,"date":"2026-05-01T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642265\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T07:42:10","slug":"we-have-to-play-a-home-game-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642265\/","title":{"rendered":"We have to play a home game in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-k7a7n511\">Japan head coach Eddie Jones has criticised Ireland\u2019s \u2018power play\u2019 in moving their Nations Championship fixture from Japan to a neutral venue in Newcastle, Australia.<br \/>\n<br role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-32qsb514\">The Brave Blossoms\u00a0launch their campaign in the new 12-team Tier 1 competition against Italy at Tokyo\u2019s Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium on Saturday 4 July.<br \/>\n<br role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-9r7av517\">Their round two &#8216;home&#8217; tie against Ireland will take place in Australia rather than Japan, it was announced at the end of April.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1977eb_bc1e06778d2448b0b1b49eecbc95b7cd~mv2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%;max-width:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/www.rugbyjp.com\/post\/eddie-jones-we-have-to-play-a-home-game-that-should-be-in-tokyo-in-australia\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/1977eb_bc1e06778d2448b0b1b49eecbc95b7cd~mv2.jpeg\/v1\/fill\/w_2048,h_1536,al_c,q_90\/1977eb_bc1e06778d2448b0b1b49eecbc95b7cd~mv2.jpeg\" draggable=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-7d0sx520\">\u201cYou know why we\u2019re playing Ireland in Newcastle, Ireland have all the power at World Rugby,\u201d said Jones on the latest Rugby Unity podcast.<br \/>\n<br role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-fz6v9523\">\u201cSo we have to play a home game, that should be in Tokyo, in Australia to make sure Ireland doesn\u2019t have to travel too much.<br \/>\n<br role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-gqhbu526\">\u201cWe have to suck it up, that\u2019s what happens when you\u2019re not a major political power at the table.\u201d<br \/>\n<br role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-d6t1w892\">Andy Farrell\u2019s Six Nations runners-up Ireland face the Wallabies in Sydney in their opening game on 4 July.<br \/>\n<br role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-ewuf2895\">Ireland lost their last game against the Brave Blossoms in Japan during the 2019 Rugby World Cup as Jamie Joseph\u2019s hosts surged into the quarter-finals by topping their group.<br \/>\n<br role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-h7la9898\">Jones added: \u201cWe\u2019ve got to be grateful to be in the Nations Championship. We have to accept there might be some inequalities in the distribution of games.<br \/>\n<br role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-6mnq4901\">\u201cWe look forward to playing there against a very good Ireland side to keep everyone happy.\u201d<br \/>\n<br role=\"presentation\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wH46u FvsWF VkKa3 SSmro\" dir=\"auto\" id=\"viewer-pomv2904\">Following their trip to Australia, Japan will host Six Nations winners France at Tokyo\u2019s National Stadium in round three on Saturday 18 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan head coach Eddie Jones has criticised Ireland\u2019s \u2018power play\u2019 in moving their Nations Championship fixture from Japan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-642265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642265","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=642265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}