Pacific Islanders chief Charlie Charters has slammed Eddie Jones over his criticism of the IRB decision not to tie players to the new combined side if they play in the summer's tests against the Tri-Nations countries.
"Eddie and his Wallabies are traveling in first class and he is criticising us for trying to improve what we are getting in the back of the plane," said Charters.
Charters said the IRB decision had done the Islanders "no special favours".
"The ruling simply confirmed that the Islanders matches are like British and Irish Lions matches: Test matches in every respect but they do not capture a player's eligibility (under the one-country-for-life rule)," Charters said.
"The Wallaby coach needs to do some basic book work on the IRB rules and regulations and he will find the Islanders are being treated no better or worse than the Lions."
On Thursday jones had said that the ruling turned the Test matches to be played this year into "Mickey Mouse" games.
He said the ruling meant a player like ACT Brumbies lock forward Radike
Samo -- who can still play for both Australia and Fiji -- could play for the Islanders on July 3 against the Wallabies, and then for the Wallabies against the All Blacks on July 17.
Charters said that was "a nonsense example" because the Islanders had already made a commitment to try to give first priority to players who had played for Fiji, Samoa and Tonga.