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Austin Healey calls out 'off-the-ball' hit that ended Stuart Hogg's game
By Ian Cameron
Austin Healey has called out an off the ball hit that ended Scotland fullback Stuart Hogg's match against Ireland in Murrayfield this afternoon.
Hogg hobbled off clutching his groan shortly after Ireland scored their first try through Conor Murray, apparently after taking an off the ball hit from Irish backrow Peter O'Mahony.
The BBC cameras either didn't pick up the contact, or at the very least decided it didn't warrant replay.
Healey wasn't best pleased: "Why haven’t they shown the hit on Hogg after chip that Led to Ireland’s first try" he tweeted.
Plenty agreed with his sentiment, including fellow BT commentator Lawrence Dallagio.
The SRU later confirmed that it was a shoulder injury that the fullback had suffered.
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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