Australian hooker Hugh Roach played in Major League Rugby between 2021-2024. He represented the Austin Gilgronis (2021-2022), the Chicago Hounds (2023), and the San Diego Legion (2024).

Roach is a highly accomplished hooker, playing with the Australia U20s and in Super Rugby with the Waratahs from 2013-2018, winning a Championship in 2014. He also won a Mitre 10 cup in New Zealand (now the NPC) with the Tasman Mako in 2019. He signed with the Austin Gilgronis ahead of the 2021 season, and earned 23 MLR caps (19 starts) for the AGs, scoring 7 tries in each of his seasons in Texas. Following the disqualification of Austin prior to the 2022 Championship Series (along with the LA Giltinis), and their subsequent cessation of operations, Roach was selected in the dispersal draft by the expansion Chicago Hounds for the 2023 season, following AGs head coach Sam Harris to Illinois.

Roach added 6 MLR caps (5 starts) and 3 tries in an injury-hampered 2023 season, still racking up over 100m gained and 50 successful tackles. On 13th November 2023, the Chicago Hounds traded Hugh Roach to the San Diego Legion in exchange for Irish born internationally capped Canadian scrum-half, Jason Higgins. Roach scored 3 tries in 12 games (all starts) in his debut season with the Legion, completing 134 tackles and tacking his career Meters Gained total over 1,100. On 2nd November 2024, the Legion announced the return of Hugh Roach for the 2025 MLR season.

Achievements:

• MLR Team of the Week: 2022 – Round 12
• MLR Team of the Week: 2022 – Round 10
• MLR Team of the Week: 2021 – Round 14