I'm Willing to suffer in quest for glory

PROP STUART IS DRIVEN TO WIN BACK ENGLAND PLACE

- Alex Spink

WILL STUART lay on the kitchen floor pressing a heat pack to his back as it continued to spasm.

While team-mates enjoyed a huge Champions Cup win for Bath earlier this month, the man with most to celebrate sipped a mug of tea and grimaced.

The England prop had got his own back South Africa loosehead on Steven Kitshoff for their previous meeting 13 months ago, which ended in a broken elbow.

Bath had a team is win had not only beaten Ulster, their scrum dominated to put Stuart back in the England reckoning after what, by his own admission, was a disappointing World Cup. It came at a price, but it is one he is again prepared to pay this Saturday when packing down against England team-mate and Harlequins star Joe Marler at the Recreation Ground.