The appetite for delayed Wallabies gratification is basically zero and the theory only works if their rivals plan to sit still or going backwards over the next four years.
, and that someone at Rugby Australia needed to tell Eddie Jones he wasn’t taking a bloke who has barely turned 19 to a World Cup.
Jorgensen was another player selected with an eye to the future, with the 2025 British and Irish Lions tour fast closing in, followed by the home World Cup two years later.Using France as an example, Rugby Australia argues that blooding young players at this Rugby World Cup, as opposed to waiting a year, will set them up for 2027.Credit:But, exactly how many of the French squad from 2019 have been selected again in 2023? Only eight, which is not an unusually high number.
The France comparison, therefore, doesn’t stack up and Rugby Australia should stop using it to justify the Wallabies’ 2023 strategy, which is on a different scale and far from the ‘tried and tested’ approach it has been presented as. The conditions are far more conducive for Fiji, Samoa, Italy, Japan and France to improve, for varied and sometimes complex reasons.It’s true that some of their big players such as Levani Botia, 34, won’t make it to 2027, but imagine what they’d be like with a genuine top-class Test No.10?have just announced the signing of Isaiah Ravula-Armstrong, a gun who came through the New Zealand system but has committed his future to Fiji.
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