Rugby-Wunderkind Jorgensen firms as Wallabies World Cup prospect


SYDNEY (Reuters) - Max Jorgensen's most complete performance in a New South Wales Waratahs shirt last Saturday night further slashed the odds on the outside back being unleashed in Wallabies gold before his 19th birthday in September.

Less than a year out of school, Jorgensen was expected to spend this Super Rugby Pacific season learning his craft as an understudy to Kurtley Beale - the 95-cap fullback who was the last teen prodigy to emerge from Sydney's St Joseph's College.

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