{"id":159703,"date":"2021-11-13T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T22:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=159703"},"modified":"2021-11-14T02:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T02:59:25","slug":"tears-flow-as-massive-nerd-makes-test-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=159703","title":{"rendered":"Tears flow as &#039;massive nerd&#039; makes Test debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ollie Hoskins&#x27; beaming grin shone through the Twickenham gloom.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old prop from Perth had just achieved his boyhood dream and completed one of the great feelgood stories by taking the famous turf to make his Wallabies debut against England.<\/p>\n<p>The little known London Irish tighthead was parachuted into the Test squad after both Taniela Tupou and Allan Alaalatoa suffered head knocks against Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Re-watch the England vs Australia rugby clash on Stan Sport &#8211; the home of the Wallabies, All Blacks and Springboks spring tours.<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/rugby?utm_source=wwos&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=rugby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Start your 7-day free trial\u00a0here\"><strong><em>Start your seven day free trial here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"eea43dec-13fb-4dfc-a243-32f9d1b565ef\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/eea43dec-13fb-4dfc-a243-32f9d1b565ef\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1306\" data-height=\"677\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/2021-live-scores-wallabies-england-latest-union-results-kick-off-time-news-video-highlights-spring-tour-twickenham\/0b82a76a-26a0-47a1-9502-a2b3f03d5eec\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"And despite a 32-15 loss\">And despite a 32-15 loss<\/a>, Hoskins was rightly thrilled with the unlikely experience and did not look out of place during his brief second half stint off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Pretty surreal mate,&quot; Hoskins told Stan Sport&#x27;s Mark Pougatch afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I didn&#x27;t think I&#x27;d be here so it&#x27;s amazing, what an experience.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/england-australia-2021-rugby-highlights-justin-harrison-defends-wallabies-effort\/4f6c1a51-f550-4c8a-aa1d-3861fa9ff146\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Star&#x27;s passionate defence after Wallabies loss\"><strong>Star&#x27;s passionate defence after Wallabies loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/2021-live-scores-wallabies-england-latest-union-results-kick-off-time-news-video-highlights-spring-tour-twickenham\/0b82a76a-26a0-47a1-9502-a2b3f03d5eec\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Wallabies blown away by ruthless England\"><strong>Wallabies blown away by ruthless England<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/rugby\/wallabies-vs-england-player-ratings-from-australia-test-rugby-loss-at-twickenham\/211939d5-5445-442b-9cc6-7633afd1dc15\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Wallabies player ratings from latest England flop\"><strong>Wallabies player ratings from latest England flop<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"3093241a-69d2-4e4f-8efa-ede7ba471234\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3093241a-69d2-4e4f-8efa-ede7ba471234\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1301\" data-height=\"662\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pougatch also captured an emotional post-game embrace between Hoskins and his father Nick, who flew from Kuala Lumpur to watch his son&#x27;s Test debut and arrived in London at 5am.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s been a crazy week mate,&quot; Hoskins said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s just flown by and it&#x27;s been wild. I think I&#x27;ve had about 1000 messages from people across the world. It&#x27;s happened really quickly but I&#x27;m so grateful mate.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is an amazing experience, I can&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s happened really.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a42ae198-febf-479d-8df3-bc66c805c7ae\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a42ae198-febf-479d-8df3-bc66c805c7ae\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1297\" data-height=\"666\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hoskins joked that he had been badgering the coaching staff to let him off the leash earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But I&#x27;d be happy with 10 seconds mate, honestly. When I got the call originally I told myself even if I don&#x27;t get to play it&#x27;s an amazing achievement for me, even to be considered. So for me to get on the pitch and get a cap, it&#x27;s hard for me to put into words. I&#x27;m really grateful.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Hoskins, who describes himself as a &quot;massive nerd,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/rugby-union\/amazing-and-surreal-emotional-dad-s-london-dash-to-see-son-s-shock-wallabies-debut-20211112-p598gy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"told the Sydney Morning Herald that he was playing Dungeons and Dragons with a friend on Sunday night when the Wallabies came calling.\">told the Sydney Morning Herald that he was playing Dungeons and Dragons with a friend on Sunday night when the Wallabies came calling.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"c0394a27-5963-474e-b0f7-afee5b800ed5\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/c0394a27-5963-474e-b0f7-afee5b800ed5\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"4668\" data-height=\"3219\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I live around the corner and I&#x27;ve been lucky enough to have my family quite close, my wife is around the corner during the week so it&#x27;s felt as normal as it could in very strange circumstances,&quot; Hoskins said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m just feeling so, so lucky and blessed to be here, this is an unbelievable experience.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>As for the game itself, Hoskins said the Wallabies were their own worst enemies.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"ca83e0d0-8cd5-45ad-9957-564242ee0bd5\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ca83e0d0-8cd5-45ad-9957-564242ee0bd5\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1308\" data-height=\"663\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#x27;t think we really got a foot into the game the whole day, I&#x27;d be surprised if we had more than 10 phases in their half the entire game.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We gave away too many penalties, we were dropping balls in contact, we kind of shot ourselves in the foot a lot there. But the experience of Test match footy was everything I expected. It was fast, it was physical, I loved every second of it.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hopefully I can do it again and if not, if this is my one and only cap, I&#x27;m proud to be a Wallaby and I&#x27;ll never, ever forget this experience.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ollie Hoskins&#x27; beaming grin shone through the Twickenham gloom. The 28-year-old prop from Perth had just achieved his boyhood dream and completed one of the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=159703\" title=\"Tears flow as &#039;massive nerd&#039; makes Test debut\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159705,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159703\/revisions\/159705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}