Wallabies coach Eddie Jones says he blames himself for injuries to captain Will Skelton and prop Taniela Tupou in training in the run-up to the World Cup pool match against Fiji in mid-September. Skelton, who suffered a calf strain, and Tupou, who was ruled out with a hamstring problem, were key to Jones’s plan of combining forward power with backline flair in the key Pool C matches against Fiji and Wales, both of which were lost.
Wallabies’ Rugby World Cup comes to sorry end. “The biggest loss we had in this tournament was losing Taniela and Will in one session and I blame myself for that,” Jones told reporters at the team camp outside Saint Etienne on Friday. “Just didn’t get it right, the session. You never know with injuries, you never really know. But could we have done that a little bit differently? I keep thinking about that. “To minimise the risk of damage, there’s just an order of training, and the way you train.