Stuart Hogg: Scotland full-back to stop playing after World Cup

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Scotland and Exeter full-back Stuart Hogg has announced his volition to discontinue from rugby aft the World Cup successful France this autumn.

Hogg, who turns 31 successful June, precocious earned his 100th headdress and has scored 171 planetary points.

Having signed his archetypal nonrecreational woody with Glasgow Warriors successful 2011, Hogg said a "new vocation beckons".

"I don't consciousness my assemblage tin execute the standards that I acceptable myself for overmuch longer," helium explained.

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