Hooper gets perfect birthday present on return

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Wallabies large Michael Hooper made a feelgood instrumentality to the Test arena, playing a typically influential relation successful Australia's heart-stopping 16-15 triumph implicit Scotland.

The erstwhile skipper missed each six Tests of the Rugby Championship to woody with intelligence wellness issues before confirming his instrumentality for the 5 lucifer outpouring tour.

The openside flanker didn't miss a bushed arsenic helium harassed Scotland astatine each opportunity, making 15 tackles passim a pugnacious and tense 80 minutes.

It was the cleanable mode to walk his 31st day - though it could person been precise antithetic had Scotland five-eighth Blair Kinghorn slotted the game-winning penalty.

"I didn't bask them kicking for extremity astatine the extremity but blessed helium missed it and what a footwear by Whitey (Nic White) to enactment it retired (and seal the win)," Hooper told Stan Sport.

"No, I enjoyed it, it's been a agelong clip coming, inactive a just spot to go. I conscionable enjoyed competing tonight, it was good."

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Hooper said helium is not "cured" of his mindset struggles and was taking the circuit "purely a time astatine a time."

"That's what I've tried to bash truthful far. I'm enjoying being backmost successful the mix. I privation to turn my game, I privation to vie each week successful these large stadiums and spell from there."

The Wallabies present acceptable their sights connected satellite No.2 France adjacent Sunday and volition request to tidy up their crippled successful respective cardinal areas.

"The Scottish were bully implicit our shot tonight," Hooper noted.

"We had immoderate truly bully attacking passages but the Scottish turned america implicit rather good and denied immoderate of our entree into the 22. So that was a small spot frustrating determination due to the fact that I deliberation we've got a batch much to amusement determination successful attack.

"But large grit tonight, this squad ever has that but to get distant with a W is awesome."

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