I'm not scared of them in any way. We will go into the game thinking we're on their level. We play against them every week.

Alfie [Thomas] will be captain, he's a brilliant captain, but it was great standing in for him.

I will see at least a month of the Premiership season, as well as the World Cup.

I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.

(The war) didn't really have an effect. Thinking a lot about the fact that we are at war did not deter me at all.

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.