The Bath moment-row,on loan at Toulon, reflects on his knee injury and fears the emotional toll on players is going uncheckedDave Attwood felt like a fraud. He has given nearly seven years of service to Bath and is aware he was not thinking rationally, and but day-to-day involvement without the release at weekends – and a series of aborted comebacks left him emotionally exhausted by his chronic knee injury.“You feel like you’ve got a genuine lack of purpose because your job is to play rugby,” Attwood says. “It would be like if you were a data analyst and someone took away your computer. Even in conversations with [the Bath owner] Bruce Craig and the coaches, you feel like an imposter because you’re not doing what you feel obligated to accomplish. Everyone is very understanding but the rational side of it is never the dominant side, or is it?”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk