Deciphering the shock Wallabies squad of Eddie Jones for France

The numbers tell a startling story.

For a tournament where coaches devote preceding years pumping experience into players so they’ll roll into the tournament with 50 caps and be nearer to age 30 than 20, Jones blew up the orthodoxy and went with rookies and greenhorns all over the list.

Of the 33 members of the 2023 squad, 25 will attend their first Rugby World Cup and to put that in context, South Africa have…