Conventional wisdom holds that Australia’s best shot at a drought-breaking World Cup will come on home soil. But they will never get a better chance than in France.
If Dave Rennie and Dan McKellar were still coaching the Wallabies, and Michael Hooper and Quade Cooper were in the squad, Australia would be worth a sneaky wee investment to win the Rugby World Cup.
The Wallabies have won the golden ticket in 2023. They’ll never get a smoother route to the semi-finals, and the tournament-ending injury to Fiji No.10 Caleb Muntz has put another dent in the quality of their group. This will never happen again. In fact, should the worst-case scenario unfold in France and the Wallabies, they’ll likely fall out of the world’s top 10 rankings and find it no easy feat to get back in. By 2027, Samoa and Tonga could really be tooled up with players who have made the eligibility switch ., but no one ever picked a Rugby World Cup squad with the primary perspective of, ‘this may have potential benefits four years later’.
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