When Kearney took Jones' neat pass to brush off the weak challenges of Brett Kimmorley and Robbie Ross to claim a third try on 19 minutes, the platform for victory was complete.
The new man's first brush with Turkey's soldiers came after their coup of 1980, their third in the space of 20 years, when his boss in the transport authority, a retired colonel, told him to shave off his moustache.