Elliot Daly: ‘I don’t think we can play more, it’s all year round at the moment’

The tireless Elliot Daly is still raring to go for Wasps but the same can’t be said for so many of his Lions and England team-mates who have fallen by the wayside during a punishing 12 months

By this stage of a post-Lions season there are usually only two sorts of professional rugby players: the ones already lying in a knackered heap and those about to join them. Rare to the point of invisibility are Englishmen who trekked all the way around New Zealand last summer, finished fifth in the recent Six Nations and still have a glint in their eye. Elliot Daly is either a brilliant actor or a serious glutton for punishment.

Nor will there be much respite in the next two months. First there is the challenge of banishing the question marks hovering over Wasps and atoning for last year’s Premiership final disappointment against Exeter. Then there is England’s tour to South Africa which Daly, far from sidestepping, is massively keen to be involved in. Given he is also poised to open a cafe in Leamington Spa – complete with baristas tutored by the UK’s five-time latte art champion – the beachside hammock will have to wait.

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