“We haven’t discounted anything at this stage. We have a bit of a smash-and-grab job,so we need people who can do a bit of a smash-and-grab job,” Jones said.

“This is like a nine-and-a-half month job in which we have to do this. There is a beautiful jewellery story around the corner,we have to get four or five coaches who can work together and bring together a team,get in there and steal the trophy and get out. They’re the sort of people we need.”

Jones said he’d been impressed with the trial games between NSW and Queensland,and the Brumbies and NSW a week earlier. But he is saving his judgement on players until Super Rugby starts next week,and in a handy guide for Wallabies aspirants,the new coach revealed which games would count most when it came to selection points.

“The games against the Crusaders and whoever the next strongest New Zealand side is,they are the important selection games because that’s where you see the level of the players. And,of course,the local derbies,” Jones said.

Jones,who has previously said Australian rugby wasstrongest when it had three teams in Super Rugby and harnessed the existing cohesion,admitted he may look to base his Wallabies team around the best-performing team in Super Rugby Pacific.

It is a strategy Cheika used with NSW players at the 2015 Rugby World Cup,and one Jones also used successfully while coaching England,when he built the team around a core of Saracens players.

“I am definitely a cohesion subscriber,but I don’t control that,” Jones said.

“Because if there is one dominant team in Super Rugby then you can have that,but if there are two dominant teams it will be different,if there are three equal teams it will be different. I don’t control that. So I can subscribe to that theory but I don’t control it.”

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