Lawrence Dallaglio was pleased to end a difficult week with a headline-grabbing victory on the pitch with Wasps.
England man pleased to put off-field controversy behind him
Lawrence Dallaglio was pleased to end a difficult week with a headline-grabbing victory on the pitch with Wasps.
The back-rower was embroiled in controversy after openly criticising England coach Brian Ashton in his post-World Cup autobiography, but was happy to put that behind him as he featured in Wasps' remarkable 29-26 victory over Gloucester.
The Londoners looked dead and buried with a quarter of an hour to go but fought back in tremendous style to secure a narrow triumph which delighted Dallaglio.
"It was a great win," said the 35-year-old who was substituted after 61 minutes of the encounter at The Stoop. "It (the week) has finished well.
"The best place to do your talking is on the pitch and I enjoyed being back in the fray.
On the back foot
"I spent a lot of the week on the back foot and I spent a lot of the 60 minutes I was playing on the back foot but it's great.
"I can put all that other stuff to one side. Nobody has mentioned anything to me at the club this week about anything other than playing this weekend.
"I've enjoyed being back at training with the guys. Wasps is always a very easy place to come back to whatever else is going on because everyone walks in with a smile on their face."
For his part Gloucester head coach Dean Ryan was predictably disappointed by his side's late collapse and conceded they had played a part in their own downfall.
"It was poor," he stated. "I thought we had done enough to go on and win the game but what we did for the last 20 minutes was poor.
"We kept kicking the ball back to them and invited them in. I'm disappointed."
Gloucester now only have five days to regroup before a Heineken Cup clash with Ulster in Belfast on Friday - a fact that has left Ryan fuming.
"It's an impossible ask but we've just got to get on with it," he added.
"We've allowed EDF schedules to put us on a five-day turnaround which is ludicrous. It's brought up every season but suddenly we lose control of scheduling due to the number of competitions."
