The Wallabies’ last warm-up game against France was a comprehensive 41-17 defeat in Paris, but Jones believes that the game against one of the World Cup favourites still provided many positives ahead of the pool stages.

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“It’s really interesting against France,” he said. “Our best moments were better than France, but our worst moments are far worse than France and it’s all about consistency and keep doing the simple things well, and at the moment, we don’t have the capacity to do that, but we’re slowly building.

“We’ve just got to be more consistent and that comes from a bit of mental toughness, that comes from the team fighting together in difficult situations. It also comes from our capacity to repeat skills under pressure and training is our avenue to improve. I can tell you we’re training at the absolute optimum we can and we’ll get to the World Cup and we’ll be in great condition.”

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