{"id":41205,"date":"2026-02-21T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=41205"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:04:26","slug":"jorgensen-turns-on-magic-for-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=41205","title":{"rendered":"Jorgensen turns on magic for NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"
NSW Waratahs coach Dan McKellar praised star Wallabies winger Max Jorgensen for rapidly “building a highlights reel” after his sensational try ensured the team continued their unbeaten start to the Super Rugby season.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old lit up the Sydney Football Stadium on Friday evening with a special solo effort that turned a frenetic match against Fijian Drua in the Waratahs’ favour just before half-time when they were trailing 10-7.<\/p>\n

They went on to win 36-13 for their second bonus point win in a row, with Jorgensen adding another try to make it four in two games.<\/p>\n

“Catty (assistant coach Mike Catt) turned around to me in the box and you just shake your head,” McKellar said of Jorgenson’s first-half try.<\/p>\n

The winger had little room to move, but sidestepped the Drua’s Taniela Rakuro before out-pacing the defence to touch down in the left corner.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, he’s beaten him in a phone booth. There aren’t many players that can score that try on the planet, it’s a great moment. He’s building a highlights reel quickly.”<\/p>\n

The Waratahs are hoping for a better season than last year when they finished eighth and badly missed the spark that Jorgensen can bring.<\/p>\n

The young gun played just six rounds of Super Rugby last year before missing the rest of the season with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t have him for long last season and when you lose players like that, it really hurts,” McKellar said. “Because if you’ve got him, he comes up with match-changing moments.”<\/p>\n

Along with Jorgensen, New Zealander Ioane Moananu crossed twice on debut after switching from the Canterbury Crusaders where he struggled for game time last season behind first-choice hookers George Bell and Codie Taylor.<\/p>\n

Another New Zealander, Charlie Gamble, along with Wallabies lock Angus Blyth also got on the scoresheet in the six-tries-to-one victory that left the winless Drua anchored to the bottom of the competition ladder.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NSW Waratahs coach Dan McKellar praised star Wallabies winger Max Jorgensen for rapidly “building a highlights reel” after his sensational try ensured the team continued their unbeaten start to the Super Rugby season. The 21-year-old lit up the Sydney Football Stadium on Friday evening with a special solo effort that turned a frenetic match against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}