Australia kick off World Cup campaign with comfortable win over Georgia

The Wallabies - with former England head coach Jones having taken over again in January - needed just a couple of minutes to get their first try when the ball was worked out wide to Jordan Petaia.

UP AND RUNNING: Australia got their RWC up and running with a win over Georgia. Pic: ©INPHO/Dave Winter

Australia 35 Georgia 15

Well, it’ll do for now. Australia are off and running at this World Cup, with their first win under Eddie Jones and further vital signs of progress. It was a little ragged in the second half, and Georgia missed numerous opportunities to make them extremely uncomfortable in the closing stages. But there was enough on display here in a sparkling first half-hour to suggest that Jones’s ideas are beginning to take, that the world’s ninth-ranked team can be more than mere makeweights at this tournament.