RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

A weekly look at the game’s other talking points

So farewell then Stuart Hogg. Try scorer extraordinaire and creator par excellence; the king of the stutter hitch kick and outside break and feisty Scotsman who breathed proud defiance. An occasionally flawed genius but a genius none the less. Possibly related to George Best apparently but definitely a sportsman with sporting magic in his DNA.
His immediate retirement from all rugby comes as a minor shock given that just weeks ago he committed to making it through to the World Cup this autumn. But only a m...