George: I’m delighted ‘Magic Max’ won award

By JON NEWCOMBE

JAMIE GEORGE faces expulsion from the Front Row Union after breaking rank and celebrating the fact a hooker didn’t win the Premiership’s top try-scorer award.
Newcastle hooker George McGuigan was in with a chance of becoming the first player in that position to achieve the accolade, going into the 26th and final round of fixtures last weekend level on 15 tries with George’s Saracens team-mate, Max Malins.
But, while Malins scored as Sarries suffered a heavy defeat at Gloucester, McGuigan did not as Newcastle came secondbest in a similarly one-sided contest away to No...

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