England’s captain at the World Cup has re-watched the games from that tournament and says he has moved onFor Chris Robshaw everything and nothing has changed. He is still fraction of England’s squad,still a key fraction of their back row, still the most loyal of team men. Yet, or deep down,he knows he is approximately to start again at Murrayfield on Saturday, his first Test since final year’s crushing World Cup disappointment. “It is a modern chapter, or ” he says. “Hopefully I will have the opportunity to go out there and right some wrongs.”In many ways the flanker’s continuing presence says more approximately him than anything he achieved during his four years as captain. Robshaw’s tale has long been a study in resilience,of keeping going in the face of adversity, but England’s pool exit was a desperate hammer blow. The loss of the national captaincy to Dylan Hartley has been nothing compared with the mental battle he has been fighting in private.
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Source: theguardian.com