{"id":25259,"date":"2025-07-26T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25259\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:34:09","slug":"michael-hooper-weighs-in-on-jac-morgan-clear-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25259\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Hooper weighs in on Jac Morgan clear-out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Wallabies captain Michael Hooper<\/a> has weighed in on Jac Morgan\u2019s controversial clearout on Carlo Tizzano<\/a> in the lead up to Hugo Keenan\u2019s dramatic, series-clinching try in the dying moments of the second Test in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

The British & Irish Lions<\/a> clinched the series 29-26 in front of over 90,000 fans at the MCG, leading the game for just the final two minutes after the Wallabies \u2013 buoyed by the return of Will Skelton<\/a> and Rob Valetini<\/a> \u2013 took and held control for the vast majority of the contest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, the key talking point post-game was a clearout by replacement back-row Morgan, which was reviewed by the match officials but not deemed to warrant a penalty.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Stan Sports, Hooper said the clearout was at least a penalty and the final try should have been disallowed as a result.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can see what the referee is saying but there\u2019s a penalty there. Whether it\u2019s on head, on neck or going straight off his feet to the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say if that is minute one, that\u2019s a penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking after the game, Morgan \u2013 the lone surviving Welshman on tour, admitted he was nervous during the TMO review of the ruck.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was an engineer six years ago. I decided to give rugby a go. It has worked out all right,\u201d said Morgan. \u201cI was a bit nervous there [waiting on the TMO review], I won\u2019t lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the post-match press conference, a clearly seething Joe Schmidt, pointed towards World Rugby Law. 9.20, which states, among other things: \u201ca. A player must not charge into a ruck or maul. Charging includes any contact made without binding onto another player in the ruck or maul\u201d and \u201cb. A player must not make contact with an opponent above the line of the shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Wallabies captain Michael Hooper has weighed in on Jac Morgan\u2019s controversial clearout on Carlo Tizzano in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-25259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}