Asia Rugby Championship: hooker Alex Post bags hat-trick as Hong Kong down South Korea to retain title
- Post grabs hat-trick as hosts beat South Korea 30-10 to successfully defend ARC title at Hong Kong Football Club
- Lewis Evans’ side do enough to defeat enthusiastic but limited opposition in a display head coach calls ‘far from perfect’
Alex Post scored a hat-trick and Hong Kong won the Asia Rugby Championship for the fourth time in a row on Saturday.
In a performance head coach Lewis Evans acknowledged was far from perfect, his side did enough to beat an enthusiastic but limited South Korea team 30-10 at Hong Kong Football Club.
A year after a nail-biting win over the same opponents in Incheon, Hong Kong again had the boot of Gregor McNeish to thank, although this time it was the fly-half’s kicking out of hand, rather than off the tee that did the trick.
On a rainy day, McNeish failed to slot a single conversion, managing just a solitary penalty a week after contributing 18 points with the boot, but his tactical kicking kept South Korea pinned back when it mattered most.
The VPC Andorra player should also have had a try, but he was responsible for butchering one of the three opportunities that Hong Kong let slip, with captain Tom Hill involved in the other two.
