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Eddie Jones’ stinging assessment of Australian rugby has come to light with the release of Stan Sport’s documentary The Wallabies.

The documentary shows Jones at training the day after Australia’s 40-6 defeat to Wales at the Rugby World Cup last year, and Jones – now in charge of Japan – does not hold back about his team.

“That’s the problem mate, we’ve got no hardness about us,” Jones says to James Slipper. “Game hardness is different to any sort of hardness, when you just stick in the f*****g game and do it. There’s none of that in Australian rugby now, and that’s where the big gap is, mate.

“If you look at those Welsh players, mate, they play 30 games a year, they’re hardened tough players, so they can just stick at it, and they know they’re going to do it. And we’ve lost that in Australian rugby.

“We’re not not tough, but we’re not trained to be tough now, and we’re not used to playing tough; like it’s an exception to play tough now rather than the norm. It stands out like dog’s balls, mate… it’s set up for failure, mate.”