Former England captain Lawrence Dallaglio has expressed his delight at returning to the game after being out for eight months with a serious knee injury. Dallaglio came on as a sub for his club Wasps yesterday but he refused to get carried away with his chances of making a swift return to the England set-up.
“I am glad the game is out of the way because of the expectations riding on it. It’s great to be back and now I can at least go back home and call myself a rugby player again. The criteria for getting picked for England is to play well week in, week out and the way I see it is that the selectors and myself need a bit more time on that one.
“It has been suggested that I might even captain any prospective England tour this summer. My view is simply that I want to get some rugby on board, and, if possible, just get myself in the tour party,” Dallaglio wrote in his column for the Sunday Times newspaper.
Filed by Tom Grealis
