Jones has plenty of experience of visiting the Principality Stadium as an opposing head coach although his record in Cardiff is mixed, with two wins in six Tests during his previous stints with England and Australia. <\/p>\n
“It is one of the great stadiums in the world,” said Jones. <\/p>\n
“How close the stadium is to the city is one of the ground’s attractions. <\/p>\n
“Spectators have a good time during the afternoon, wander into the stadium and are full of life and vigour.”<\/p>\n
The Principality Stadium roof will again be closed for the game.<\/p>\n
“It is an electric atmosphere,” said Jones.<\/p>\n
“We have not had the debate about whether the roof is open or closed which was the ongoing issue in England and Wales weeks. We know it is closed and that intensifies the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
“For our young team, we’re looking forward to playing there, experiencing that environment, and at times, hostility of the crowd. <\/p>\n
“They are the games you want to play in, to learn how to cope and win in those situations.”<\/p>\n
Japan defeated Wales in stifling conditions in July in Kitakyushu aided by a mid-afternoon kick-off but Jones also expects their hosts to utilise local advantage.<\/p>\n
“That is why you play home and away Tests, mate,” said Jones.<\/p>\n
“At home you play to your conditions and when you are away, you have to adapt.<\/p>\n
“The interesting thing will be if you go to the ground [Principality Stadium] at 10 in the morning, is the groundsman going to have the hosepipe on?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jones has plenty of experience of visiting the Principality Stadium as an opposing head coach although his record…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-262039","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262039","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=262039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}