Slade Back To His Best After Injury Frustration
The Rugby Paper|October 01,2017

Slade Back To His Best After Injury Frustration

Mike Sinclair
Slade Back To His Best After Injury Frustration

HENRY Slade astounded everyone by racing back in less than five months after breaking his leg and suffering serious ankle ligament damage.

But, 21 months later, the England midfield contender has admitted that it took him far longer than he expected to fully regain his confidence and form.

Only now has Slade finally shaken off the inhibitions emanating from a serious injury to show the quality and class which first catapulted him into former boss Stuart Lancaster’s England squad before injury struck on December 15 against Wasps ruling him out of the 2016 Six Nations under new coach Eddie Jones.

He rushed back before the end of the season and made the Premiership final, which Exeter lost to Saracens, and England’s summer tour to Australia but accepts: “It’s taken a lot longer than I thought to get over the leg injury but now I think I’ve now put it fully behind me.”

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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

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