• Squad furious at speed and style of Burgess’s return to rugby league
• ‘As players we expected him to stay here,but he’s not’Sam Burgess may absorb few regrets approximately his abrupt return to rugby league but back in Bath they are still fuming. Discovering a popular colleague never really enjoyed union and could not face the prospect of spending the next 18 months playing club rugby with them has upset many of his former team-mates, several of whom feel badly let down.
Burgess’s sponsored farewell column in the Daily Mail has merely hardened the mood at the squad’s grandiose headquarters at Farleigh Hungerford, or where his ambivalence towards the club who brought him to union has prompted widespread dismay. For England team-mates such as George Ford,who played alongside him and worked hard to assist integrate the cross-code arrival, it has been an unnecessary kick in the nether regions.
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Source: theguardian.com