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I'll be very surprised if hooper doesn't win, which will make him the first player to go back to back. most of the people I talk to love his attitude and what he does for the wallabies and waratahs, I wish he were still at the brumbies.
Big hits, fantastic at the breakdown and trademark running...
Hooper can play any openside role, we have seen that in his stats, Double the turnovers won of any test 7 in the world last year, also the most tackles of any test forward. These are facts and can't be disputed by opinions.
What I find fascinating is that in the northern hemisphere NZ and SA...
Anyone seen this from stats company Opta Jason
In 2013 Michael Hooper won 8 more turnovers (22) and completed 11 more tackles (144) than any other player in international rugby. Key.
8:01pm - 3 Jun 14
Hodgson has been fantastic for the force and deserves his wallaby call up. But let's get serious, of course he has made more tackles than hooper, the force have made over 300 more than the tahs. That also gives hodgson over 300 more breakdown opportunities.
According to fox stats hodgson has 13...
I think hooper is doing his job superbly and doing all he can for his team, the fact is the waratahs are winning and more players are doing their jobs.
Who are the Australian breakdown warriors so far in 2014.
Total Pilfers/forced penalties.
Hooper 5
Hodgeson 3
Fardy 3
Mowen 2
Hoiles 2
Pocock 1
Schatz 1
Quirk 1
Alcock 1
Gill 1
McCalman 1
Very impressive from Hooper considering the Tahs have played 1 less game and he has also conceded the least...
Great night for hooper, 100th waratahs captain over the reds, an emphatic win that could have easily been 50, and I hear he was voted players player.
Really enjoyed that the tahs didn't make a big deal of the win and will just move on with their campaign, good sign for Aus rugby.
I also rate Colby, he finished strongly last year when Smith got injured. But rebels have 3 openside options.
Here a couple of awesome new clips on hooper 2013 and spring tour that have only recently been loaded.
Probably a topic that's been done to death, but a good balanced article that surprisingly says Hoopers 2013 and pococks last full year 2011 both achieved 1.5 average pilfers/turnover penalties per game...