Watch every second of the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nWith nothing on, flyhalf Lawson Creighton fired a triple cut-out pass to Jorgensen and watched the electrifying Wallabies winger do the rest.<\/p>\n
With little room to move, the 21-year-old beat his Drua opposite Taniela Rakuro all ends up with a bamboozling sidestep before out-pacing the cover defence of fullback Ilaisa Droasese to touch down in the left corner.<\/p>\n
The Waratahs had been trailing 10-7 before Jorgensen’s intervention but were never headed again, leaving Dan McKellar’s side top of the table following two bonus-point wins to open their 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n
Jorgensen was controversially denied a second five-pointer three minutes later when the TMO ruled a forward pass in the lead-up to the winger racing 30 metres to seemingly score under the posts on the stroke of halftime.<\/p>\n
But officials couldn’t deny Jorgensen a second try from, fittingly, the last play in his latest man-of-the-match performance.<\/p>\n
He swooped on a well-placed grubber kick from Jack Debreczeni to dot down in the dying seconds, to the delight of the mostly pro-Waratahs crowd of 13,578.<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty hard to beat the home crowd. Such a great, great support crew,” Jorgensen told Stan Sport.<\/p>\n
“Look how many people show up here tonight. It’s amazing. The home crowd getting around you really does stuff for you and really pushes you through the full 80 (minutes).”<\/p>\n
While Jorgensen again provided the highlights, it was the NSW forwards who paved the way for the victory.<\/p>\n
No.8 Pete Samu and back-rower Clem Halaholo were all power, while replacement hooker Ioane Moananu also bagged a try-scoring double on debut for the Waratahs after defecting from the defending champion Crusaders.<\/p>\n
Flanker Charlie Gamble and replacement lock Angus Blyth also crossed for the Tahs.<\/p>\n
While NSW are flying early doors, the Drua are now none from two after suffering a rare home loss last week to Moana Pasifika to start the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another breathtaking try to Max Jorgensen has helped the NSW Waratahs continue their unbeaten start to the Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,217781,32951,760,85,48013],"class_list":{"0":"post-492289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fijian-drua","11":"tag-nsw-waratahs","12":"tag-rugby","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-super-rugby-pacific"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}