Huw Jones: Scotland Must Defeat Australia for Autumn Series Success

Huw Jones, recognized as one of the world’s top centres, is set to participate in the Autumn Test between Scotland and Australia. The match will take place on Sunday, 24 November, kicking off at 13:40 GMT at Scottish Gas Murrayfield. Listeners can tune in on BBC Radio Scotland, and live text commentary will be available on the BBC Sport website and app. Huw Jones has stated that Scotland’s Autumn Nations Series will only be considered a triumph if they secure a win against Australia this Sunday. The Scottish team previously achieved victories over Fiji and Portugal, with these results sandwiching a loss to the world champions, South Africa. They are now preparing to face a rejuvenated Wallabies squad, which has recorded consecutive wins against England and Wales. “Looking at the games coming in, we knew obviously the South Africa and Australia games would be the big challenges,” centre Jones said. “We obviously have aspirations to be successful as a team, as a squad, and we have to be winning the games against the top seven teams in the world.” “Those are games that we have to start winning now if we really want to be taken seriously.” “It’s all well and good beating Fiji and Portugal and then winning our games on the summer tour, but we want to take strides.” “The South Africa game was disappointing but we’ve got to nail it this weekend against Australia.” Jones expressed his admiration for Australia’s recovery from a challenging period, which included their pool-stage exit at the 2023 Rugby World Cup, to achieve victories at Twickenham and Cardiff. “They’ve been really good, [scored] a lot of tries,” said the Glasgow Warriors back. “They’ve got threats everywhere really. You see the way their forwards are carrying, you see what their backs are doing.” “I think it’s an exciting challenge. Hopefully, weather dependent, it’ll be an open game. When we’ve played against Australia in the past, it’s been a pretty fun one to be involved in, free-flowing, so we’d hope for that again.” “We’d hope to imprint our game onto them. Our defence we see now as quite a strength of ours, so knowing that they’re coming with their running game, that’s a big challenge that we’re looking forward to. But with our attack, we want to impose that on the game as well.”