ENGLAND’S MIKE BROWN has taken to Twitter to speak about Michael Hooper’s one week suspension for an illegal shoulder charge.
The Australian flanker will miss the Pool A decider against Wales on Saturday after being found guilty of dangerous play, for a high shoulder charge on Brown towards the end of the first-half on Saturday night.
Hooper escaped with just a penalty at the time, but the hit sparked a furious reaction from the English fullback.
And Brown has been tweeting about the incident today, explaining why the incident angered him so much.
Brown had initially been responding to a tweet of him holding Hooper to the ground, which has since been deleted.
The full-back was knocked unconscious in England’s Six Nations meeting with Italy in February, and despite returning for the end of the tournament, spent several months out of the game with recurring headaches.
Given his previous concussion, Brown said he was particularly angered by what he believed was a deliberate hit.
But the full-back says that while he was angered by the challenge at the time, he did not seek to get Hooper cited or suspended, instead blaming referee Romain Poite and his touchjudges for not referring the incident to the TMO.
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The hit from Hooper has not brought on any of the full-back’s previous concussion symptoms, and he will start from the bench in England’s final game of the tournament against Uruguay on Saturday.
He is one of the better keepers in Loi. The fai are long overdue to address the problem of players being out of work when they finish playing ?a pension trust for players should be in place for a time in their career , maybe kick in at 35 years old ? And the clubs should be made subsidise this payment also ? I know the argument for clubs is they are struggling , but this plan with the main body and clubs should be in place imo. The players also can contribute some payment to the fund .
Paying people a pension when finishing work at 35?
@Robert O’Rourke: saving the tax payer also , not many sportspeople over 35 . And if those people were lucky to get a job , after various courses , then they would be taxpayers also .
@Tricksy: Why should they get special treatment just because they’re sport stars though. I’d like quit my job at 35 and have a pension waiting for me. Maybe a back to education scheme but not a pension.
@Robert O’Rourke: A few people have suggested I retire at 35 and even before that but I know they are only joking regardless of the Mayhem all around me .
@Robert O’Rourke: employer s are not inclined to employ some one in their thirties who never had a previous job ! And by the time they do a few unemployment courses they are older also . So these ex players are getting a welfare payment more than likely from a person like yourself (tax payer) who is in employment from young age , but had no talent to play a sport !
@Tricksy: Not sure how we’re supposed to sympathise here. They have plenty of time to do courses while they’re footballers if they have any small bit of drive or maturity at all about themselves. See the amount of young Irish professional rugby players who are currently doing degrees? Also, employers have no issue taking on people in their 30s with several decades left in their careers. You’d swear they were in their late 50s!