Andrew has no regrets about Easter decision
England's stand in manager Rob Andrew says he has no regrets about taking Nick Easter to New Zealand despite him pulling out through injury. Easter, 29, was in Auckland for just four days before packing his bags for home after being ruled out of the tour with a fracture to his right hand.
It has emerged the Harlequins number eight first suffered the injury over a month ago but he played on and even captained an England XV to victory over the Barbarians at Twickenham on June 1.
It was not until he underwent a CT scan in Auckland at the weekend that it became apparent how bad the injury is. Easter is set to arrive back in London on Monday, one week and 24,000-miles after he first departed with the squad from Heathrow.
Andrew said: "There was some concern. We had a long discussion last Monday about whether Nick should fly out with us because we had an X-ray but we didn't have a CT scan.
"He did the original injury playing four weeks before the Barbarians game --but he played the week after doing it and he felt comfortable it was a risk worth taking. He wanted to come.
"It was only when we got here that it was clear to him it didn't feel quite the same as when he first did the injury.
"We had the CT scan on Saturday and discovered it was slightly more complicated than we had originally thought.''
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Posted by Wilson – 11 Jun 2008, 8:35 AM
Well certainly if he hadn't gone out there then there would have been no chance of him playing at all. If the injury hadn't been still there then it would have been a lost chance. At least this way they didn't risk losing him whilst they waited for results.