While he awaits Morgan’s return, Jones has backed Morgan Morse to become a 50-100 cap international after being named in his first Wales squad.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old back row has been a notable omission despite having what Jones described as a “great highlights reel”.<\/p>\n
After leaving him out of the summer tour, Wales interim coach Matt Sherratt said Morse was “a hell of a player”, but not an out-and-out number eight.<\/p>\n
Morse and Ospreys team-mate James Fender are among five uncapped players in Steve Tandy’s 39-man squad for next month’s autumn internationals against Argentina, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa.<\/p>\n
“As young men it will definitely be a great feather in their cap,” said Jones. <\/p>\n
A rising star of Welsh rugby, Morse was selected for Wales Under-20s just a week after his 17th birthday and has been a standout player at Ospreys in recent seasons.<\/p>\n
“He’s got a great work ethic and the coaches here are passionate about trying to help him maximise that potential,” added Jones.<\/p>\n
“He is still a very young man and we don’t want him to just get a cap, we want him to be a 50-100 cap player.<\/p>\n
“We want to put those foundations in with him and for him to be in Wales squads for many years to come.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While he awaits Morgan’s return, Jones has backed Morgan Morse to become a 50-100 cap international after being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-222023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}