Faletau has been involved in certain aspects of Wales’ preparations for the second match in the two Test series. <\/p>\n
When asked whether missing a training session could affect his selection, Jones said: “With him, no. He has played more than 100 internationals and been a Test match player since 2011.<\/p>\n
“If you don’t look after those older players they will break so we are just looking after him which is a key thing.<\/p>\n
“If I was a 34-year-old player for Wales and someone offered me a session off, I would bite their hand off. “<\/p>\n
Cardiff number eight Faletau has played 109 internationals for Wales and is the tourists’ most experienced performer.<\/p>\n
He was one of Wales’ leading players in Kitakyushu but could still not help his side suffer an 18th successive international loss.<\/p>\n
“He is a brilliant player,” said Jones, who played with Faletau for both Wales and the Lions.<\/p>\n
“I remember when he came through. He has not really changed much with his movement, the rugby IQ.<\/p>\n
“He is not massively vocal but he has a brilliant follow-me characteristic which the boys see in him and get behind him.<\/p>\n
“He has been excellent for us and we just need the boys to back him up a little bit at times.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faletau has been involved in certain aspects of Wales’ preparations for the second match in the two Test…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-247509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114816653926710047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}