It took until September but Australia can finally celebrate a win in 2023. In the end, it was very much worth the wait and may just have raised expectations about how deep they can go at this Rugby World Cup.
Eddie Jones wouldn’t have wanted to lose his first five games back in charge of the Wallabies but after continually stressing that the Rugby Championship and subsequent warm-up games were simply about the process rather than the results and that the World Cup would be the real quiz, the head coach will have felt a sense of vindication at the impressive 35-15 triumph over Georgia.
