Elated coach Dan McKellar has been left shaking his head in awe after another breathtaking Max Jorgensen try vaulted the NSW Waratahs to the top of the Super Rugby Pacific table with a 36-13 victory over the Fijian Drua.
As he did last week in a big win over Queensland, Jorgensen lit up Allianz Stadium with a brilliant double and one special solo effort that turned the match the Waratahs' way four minutes before halftime on Friday night.
With nothing on, flyhalf Lawson Creighton fired a triple cut-out pass to Jorgensen and watched the electrifying Wallabies winger do the rest.
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.
"You just shake your head. Honestly, he's beaten him in a phone booth," McKellar said post-match.
"There's not many players that can score that try - on the planet - so, yeah, Maxi, it's a great moment. He's building the highlights reel quickly.
"I thought he did a lot of other good things well. I thought his work on our contestable kicking game to win us the ball back, that's something we've spoken about.
"It was much better for him tonight."
Even Jorgensen admitted that he surprises himself sometimes with what he can do as he adds to his ever-growing highlight reel.
"Sometimes I do [surprise myself]. I try to work on it as much as I can, so I feel like I’m pretty confident in my ability to do some of the stuff I do, as I do a lot of work on it at training and have done for a while now, so I do like to have that confidence in what I’m doing," he said.
“I can’t let my secrets out, I’ve got to keep them in my bag, but it’s mostly credit to all the boys getting me in that position, getting us close to the try line."
McKellar also took time to praise his forward pack, with the scrum particuarly impactful in a performance that saw five penalties blown against the Drua.
"I thought our forwards were outstanding tonight," he said.
"I couldn't be happier with the piggies. They laid the platform - scrum, lineout, maul. Defensively, they had to do a lot of work because of some errors we made.
"But to come here and pick up five points and it looks like we've come away unscathed against a dangerous, dangerous team, so yeah, pleased."
