The Australia coach has stayed true to his word by rewarding form regardless of age or status in his 33-man squad for the tournament in France
uthless and risky, maybe even slightly deranged. The Wallabies 2023 World Cup squad, announced on Thursday night for the “smash and grab” mission on rugby’s greatest prize starting next month in France, shows all the diverse moods of its maverick head coach Eddie Jones.
The leader of the 2023 campaign is the biggest shock of all. Will Skelton, 31, for so long a sleeping giant of Australian rugby, is the new Wallabies captain – the 87th in the team’s history and Jones’s fifth skipper in seven weeks – after Tate McDermott led last weekend and James Slipper and Allan Alaalatoa in the Tests prior. Skelton has only captained once – a Wallabies XV who lost to the French Barbarians in 2016 – but the big man now has the big job.
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