{"id":102161,"date":"2025-10-26T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102161\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T15:34:12","slug":"eddie-jones-south-africa-jibe-in-wake-of-narrow-loss-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102161\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Jones&#8217; South Africa jibe in wake of narrow loss to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan\u2019s 19-15 close loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia<\/a> has proved to be a confidence booster for Eddie Jones ahead of the Brave Blossoms tour of Europe which features an opening encounter against the Springboks at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>The Brave Blossoms engaged in a warrior-like defensive effort against the Wallabies, completing 96 per cent of their 218 tackles, with just 10 missed.<\/p>\n<p>With the Australians playing a compact, confronting style of forward-dominant rugby, Jones was bouyed by the close loss ahead of their match up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/south-africa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a> who possess an intimidating forward pack.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>James Slipper tells the KOKO show how real retirement is | RPTV<\/p>\n<p>Wallabies legend James Slipper joins the KOKO Show in this week\u2019s episode, reflecting on his career, retirement and next steps. Watch the full episode on RugbyPass TV now<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rugbypass.tv\/playlist\/31712\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"video-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>James Slipper tells the KOKO show how real retirement is | RPTV<\/p>\n<p>Wallabies legend James Slipper joins the KOKO Show in this week\u2019s episode, reflecting on his career, retirement and next steps. Watch the full episode on RugbyPass TV now<\/p>\n<p>   Points Flow Chart <\/p>\n<p>Australia win +4<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761492851_861_810.png.webp\"\/>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761492852_982_802.png.webp\"\/>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761492852_823_810.png.webp\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p>Time in lead<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761492852_714_802.png.webp\"\/>      <\/p>\n<p>51%<\/p>\n<p>Possession Last 10 min<\/p>\n<p>49%<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/live\/australia-vs-japan\/?g=946410\/\" class=\"link-box\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going there thinking we\u2019re going to win,\u201d Jones said about playing the Springboks in England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Africa are like everyone, if you put pressure on and get in their face they make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine beating South Africa at Wembley, that would be iconic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/japan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a> famously completed the \u2018Brighton Miracle\u2019 under Jones at the 2015 Rugby World Cup, beating the Springboks 34-32 on English soil 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The two subsequent match ups, both played in 2019, ended with comfortable wins to South Africa by 41-7 and 26-3.<\/p>\n<p>Jones has been building his Japan squad for two seasons, focusing on building depth with young players.<\/p>\n<p>Having lost the last two Pacific Nations Cups to Fiji, Jones believes they are on the right track to compete with the heavyweights of Test rugby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m super pleased about is that now we (Japan) are a team that stays in the fight,\u201d Jones told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kept going, we could have won the game in the end but we weren\u2019t quite good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s 19-15 close loss to Australia has proved to be a confidence booster for Eddie Jones ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-102161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}