Japan V Australia: Rugby Union International Test – Live

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Another section will beryllium written successful Australian rugby’s agelong and tempestuous narration pinch Eddie Jones this evening, and for nan Wallabies it’s an opportunity to laic immoderate ghosts to rest.

The Japanese judge successful onryō – malicious spirits who perished afloat of anger and past return to scare nan surviving to decease and bargain their souls. The Wallabies look an onryō of sorts this play – their erstwhile coach Eddie Jones, who led them disconnected a cliff astatine nan 2023 World Cup and past abandoned them to coach Japan.

This will beryllium nan first clip nan Wallabies person faced disconnected against their aged mentor since he fled a five-year $5m statement conscionable 9 months into a quest to rebuild Australian rugby for location men’s and women’s World Cups successful 2027 and 2029. Instead, Jones scarcely checked successful connected nan Wallaroos and won 2 of his 9 Tests arsenic nan Wallabies were eliminated successful RWC excavation stages for nan first time.

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Hello everybody and invited to unrecorded sum of Japan v Australia successful nan opening lucifer of nan Wallabies’ outpouring tour. Kick-off astatine Japan National Stadium successful Tokyo is 2.50pm section clip (4.50pm AEDT).

This is 1 of those standalone internationals for which discourse and communicative will beryllium overmuch easier to deduce pinch hindsight.

Is this nan Eddie Jones Test? Is it a gentle commemorative 50th day of nan first gathering betwixt nan 2 sides astatine nan SCG? Is it nan springboard to a triumphant European tour? Or will it expose tired Australian legs pursuing a gruelling Rugby Championship and Lions series? Will Joe Schmidt’s transformed XV show awesome squad extent aliases nan coach’s overthinking? In nan title for a important World Cup seeding is this nan infinitesimal nan 2027 hosts prehend nan inaugural from Argentina, aliases manus it to them?

All of these ponderables will apt only interest nan die-hards, pinch this afternoon’s lucifer accessible only connected salary tv and coinciding pinch a blockbuster ODI. Following nan large push to make nan Wallabies a much accessible nationalist squad complete caller months, it will beryllium absorbing to measurement nan attraction facet complete this result, triumph aliases lose.

I’ll beryllium backmost pinch much shortly. If you want to get successful touch while I’m around, nan reside is jonathan.howcroft.casual@theguardian.com.