Hogg retired in July with immediate effect after failing to prove his fitness before the World Cup, and cited the toll the sport took on his family as one of the reasons why he hung up his boots.
“I got to the stage in my rugby career that I was missing my kids growing up,” he told TNT Sports. “When my son, who is seven, turns up to me, and I come home from training, and he’s like: ‘Dad, do you want to go outside and play football?’ And I’m like: ‘mate, I can’t. I genuinely can’t, like I’m absolutely beat’.
“His little face, and he’s out in the rain… I sit there and I watch him, and he’s on his own, and I’m like: ‘this is absolutely breaking me’. I want to be there for my kids.”
