Replicating a pre-World Cup trip in 2003, Eddie Jones and the Wallabies visited a remote community on the edge of the Gulf of Carpentaria before they fly out for France,
Twenty years after Lote Tuqiri famously got a little too close for comfort to an angry crocodile while visiting Arnhem Land, the Wallabies managed to avoid a similar scare when they retraced their steps on a visit to a remote Indigenous community in the Northern Territory at the weekend.Eddie Jones took the Wallabies on a quick trip to Arnhem Land before jetting off to France for the Rugby World Cup.“There were young kids running around with a python as a pet,” Wallabies lock Nick Frost said.
The Top End trip was designed by Eddie Jones to emulate a Wallabies camp before the 2003 Rugby World Cup, where a few days of sweltering training was followed by a few nights camping in Arnhem Land, to help players connect with, and understand, the country they represent on the field., and though the 2023 adventure was comparatively shorter, it was no less memorable for Jones’ young squad.
The pet croc is named ‘Nike’, which came after a visit from Cathy Freeman. Locals spied her shoes when she went for a run and decided the swoosh looked like the tail of the then-young crocodile. With a training drone sent aloft to keep an eye out for crocs, some players took a quick dip in the crystal clear water before departing for Nhulunbuy, where players met 300 people at a school football field for a kick and autographs, before flying out.
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