Max Jorgensen is a promising 18-year-old athlete. Some in Australia talk of him as a teenage prodigy. His father Peter was capped twice by Australia before switching to rugby league in 1995. There has been increasing concern in rugby union circles at the players being lost to rugby league. Jorgensen, it was feared in those circles, was another who would be lost from a sport which is struggling for attention in Australia. As Jorgensen came to his decision last year, he took a call from someone whose knowledge of Australian rugby hadn’t diminished.  “It was Eddie Jones who picked up…

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