Eddie Jones suffered a humiliating begin to his second stint answerable for Australia as his woeful Wallabies have been crushed 43-12 by a half-strength South Africa in Pretoria.

Wing Kurt-Lee Arendse scored a hat-trick of tries as a Springboks’ B crew ran riot at Loftus Versfeld to make it an sad return for Jones.

The Boks have been additionally awarded two penalty tries and acquired one other from flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit within the bonus-point victory initially of this summer season’s Rugby Championship.

The Aussies have now misplaced on all seven of their journeys to Pretoria and former England boss Jones had few complaints after seeing his crew totally outclassed.

‘We have been outplayed all over the place, crushed in each division,’ mentioned Jones. ‘Actually disappointing however no excuses. We acquired a sensible appraisal of the place we’re as a crew.’

Australia fell to  a heavy defeat towards South Africa in Eddie Jones first recreation again in cost

Jones says they’ll study their classes forward of their conflict with Argentina subsequent weekend 

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And the place Australia are as a crew is changing into a nationwide concern with the World Cup simply 61 days away. 

Jones, who led the Wallabies to the 2003 World Cup closing throughout his first stint answerable for his dwelling nation, was taking cost of a world facet for the primary time since his England reign ended final November in a crushing defeat by the South African world champions.

The 63-year-old would have fancied he might avenge that loss on his first outing again with the Aussies, particularly with South Africa having despatched quite a few their star gamers to New Zealand forward of their second fixture in Auckland subsequent Saturday.

However understrength and underwhelming themselves for intervals of the sport, they nonetheless carried far an excessive amount of of a risk for Jones’ rabble. The match really began completely for Jones, again answerable for Australia for the primary time since 2005.

Simply eight minutes have been on the clock when Marika Koroibete flew down the left wing to place the away facet in entrance however that was nearly as good because it acquired for the Wallabies.

Carter Gordon got here off the bench for his Take a look at debut and marked it with a breakaway comfort rating within the final minute, arrange by Koroibete.

However in between these uncommon Australian moments of respectable attacking, the Boks piled up 43 factors.

Arendse’s medical ending was a key issue as he took his tally of worldwide tries to 10 in seven checks. He crossed unopposed for his first attempt because the guests ran out of defenders from a break.

Jones admitted that his facet have been ‘crushed in each division’ by South Africa

Scrum-half Cobus Reinach sniped across the blindside from a lineout and a few lightning fast fingers launched Arendse because the Boks led 17-5 at half-time.

Arendse accomplished his hat-trick 11 minutes into the second half, dancing down the left wing and evading two tackles earlier than dotting down.

‘I’m actually happy with the boys, it was a implausible efficiency,’ Boks’ captain Duane Vermeulen mentioned. ‘We are able to nonetheless enhance, it was not 100% our greatest efficiency, however I’m very proud of the outcome.’

Jones has per week to get this shocker out of his system forward of a showdown with Argentina in Sydney subsequent Saturday.

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