Former Wallabies lockout Justin Harrison believes English plague Jonny Hill deserves further scrutiny for his role in a wild Ella-Mobbs test match in Perth on Saturday night.
Hill received a yellow card for his first half against Australian Darcy Swain.
The Englishman pulled Swain’s hair into what appeared to be a deliberate tactic to annoy his younger rival, who fell into the trap with a headbutt that used a red card.
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But the cameras of Nine and Stan Sport captured a previous problem of Hill that led Swain to see the red: push the Wallaby in the face hard with both hands.
“That’s attacking another player’s head with both hands,” Harrison said.
“I would be very surprised if the independent citation commissioner didn’t take a look at this game and wanted to take a closer look at it.
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Jonny Hill successfully finished off Darcy Swain in preparation for his red header. (Stan)
“It will be better for Jonny Hill to keep his suit fresh for perhaps a court hearing.”
Swain will almost certainly miss the rest of the three-test series by head-to-head.
“As soon as he (referee James Doleman) used the words head-on, that was it,” former Wallaby Morgan Turinui said.
Darcy Swain nods to Jonny Hill. (Stan)
“If you use your head as a weapon … in terms of strength, it wasn’t high, but it’s paying a hard price justified for that.”
All Blacks legend Andrew Mehrtens added that it was “very difficult to justify a headache in any situation, right?”
Australia’s 30-28 victory broke a streak of eight straight defeats against England since 2016.
The match ended for Banks after a nasty fall
His last victory over the former enemy was at the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
It was a wild night from start to finish.
Five-eighth-grader Quade Cooper’s Wallabies succumbed to “calf consciousness” in the warm-ups and withdrew from the test.
Quade dropped the bomb before the game
Nervous Noah Lolesio entered the starting lineup when James O’Connor was pulled out of a suit at a corporate function to take his place on the Wallabies bench.
Lateral Tom Banks suffered a horrific injury that allowed Jordan Petaia the opportunity to show off at the top level.
Petaia scored a try and may not look back on the road to next year’s World Cup.
The Wallabies attacked England
Already without Taniela Tupou’s triumphant letter, prop Allan Alaalatoa failed in an HIA when reliable Sir James Slipper got up to do some housework on the relatively unknown side of the fray.
“We had to dig deep, go a little deep today and find a lot of solutions,” Wallabies captain Michael Hooper said.
“I’m very proud of our guys and the effort we put in. How good the sport is in the sense that you can’t write these things. You have all these plans and they come out the window.”
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