Abby Dow feared she was destined to become the obligatory luckless casualty of England’s World Cup preparations as she lay on a stretcher at Gloucester stricken by a broken leg. But the timeframe was reduced to six months, placing the World Cup back in the picture, and even that target is now beatable with a spot in the tournament opener against Fiji in Auckland on October 8 beckoning. “We’ve been building for this event for five years and the thought of ‘it’s me’ was going through my head. “The surgery itself was quite a big surgery and the surgeon can’t say ‘you’re going to make it.’ You can’t tell until after the surgery. “I’m just really trying to transition out of that S&C part and actually growing as a rugby player, not just growing a leg!”

Source: The Herald September 27, 2022 21:48 UTC