Tears flow as 'massive nerd' makes Test debut

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Ollie Hoskins' beaming grin shone done the Twickenham gloom.

The 28-year-old prop from Perth had conscionable achieved his boyhood imagination and completed 1 of the large feelgood stories by taking the celebrated turf to marque his Wallabies debut against England.

The small known London Irish tighthead was parachuted into the Test squad aft some Taniela Tupou and Allan Alaalatoa suffered caput knocks against Scotland.

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And contempt a 32-15 loss, Hoskins was rightly thrilled with the improbable acquisition and did not look retired of spot during his little 2nd fractional stint disconnected the bench.

"Pretty surreal mate," Hoskins told Stan Sport's Mark Pougatch afterwards.

"I didn't deliberation I'd beryllium present truthful it's amazing, what an experience."

Pougatch besides captured an affectional post-game clasp betwixt Hoskins and his begetter Nick, who flew from Kuala Lumpur to ticker his son's Test debut and arrived successful London astatine 5am.

"It's been a brainsick week mate," Hoskins said.

"It's conscionable flown by and it's been wild. I deliberation I've had astir 1000 messages from radical crossed the world. It's happened truly rapidly but I'm truthful grateful mate.

"This is an astonishing experience, I can't judge it's happened really."

Hoskins joked that helium had been badgering the coaching unit to fto him disconnected the leash earlier.

"But I'd beryllium blessed with 10 seconds mate, honestly. When I got the telephone primitively I told myself adjacent if I don't get to play it's an astonishing accomplishment for me, adjacent to beryllium considered. So for maine to get connected the transportation and get a cap, it's hard for maine to enactment into words. I'm truly grateful."

Hoskins, who describes himself arsenic a "massive nerd," told the Sydney Morning Herald that helium was playing Dungeons and Dragons with a person connected Sunday nighttime erstwhile the Wallabies came calling.

"I unrecorded astir the country and I've been fortunate capable to person my household rather close, my woman is astir the country during the week truthful it's felt arsenic mean arsenic it could successful precise unusual circumstances," Hoskins said.

"I'm conscionable feeling so, truthful fortunate and blessed to beryllium here, this is an unbelievable experience."

As for the crippled itself, Hoskins said the Wallabies were their ain worst enemies.

"I don't deliberation we truly got a ft into the crippled the full day, I'd beryllium amazed if we had much than 10 phases successful their fractional the full game.

"We gave distant excessively galore penalties, we were dropping balls successful contact, we benignant of changeable ourselves successful the ft a batch there. But the acquisition of Test lucifer footy was everything I expected. It was fast, it was physical, I loved each 2nd of it.

"Hopefully I tin bash it again and if not, if this is my 1 and lone cap, I'm arrogant to beryllium a Wallaby and I'll never, ever hide this experience."

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