Stephen Moore and Rob Horne have hit back after the under-fire coach said Michael Hooper, Quade Cooper and Bernard Foley weren’t the right role models for the World Cup.
Former Wallabies stars Stephen Moore and Rob Horne believe it was “unfair” and “laughable” for national coach Eddie Jones to say in an interview that Michael Hooper, Quade Cooper and Bernard Foley were not the right role models for the team for the World Cup.
“If you look at someone like Hoops’ contribution to the game since he’s been playing in Australia, that’s the last thing we need to be worrying about.“If I think about the people that I played with, from the start of my career, he’d be in the top half-a-dozen players that I played with because of his consistency. The way he could back up and compete near his best, we haven’t had enough players like that, full stop, over the last few years.
“As someone who has played with Hoops for 10-plus years, no one has been a better role model or more driven for success,” Holloway wrote on social media. “First guy in the building, last guy out, always wanting to help his teammates and challenges them to be the best. This is all getting old, we need to move on.”
“You can get rid of people and say, ‘We need to change the people and change the culture’, but unless you have got someone who can step into that role, particularly in a World Cup, it’s counterproductive because now we have players who have largely lost every game this year and we’re back where we started really.
In the WXV1 opener last week, Australia were thumped by England 42-7, while France inflicted world champions New Zealand’s first loss in three years.
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