Winger Jess Breach has been affected by a series of injuries and Covid-19, but is set to finally get back out on the field for the Red Roses in Saturday’s match against Wales in Gloucester
Last Updated: 06/04/22 12:37pm
Jess Breach is set to return to action for England against Wales on Saturday
Jess Breach is aiming to put her injury troubles behind her once and for all as she prepares to return to the international arena in England’s TikTok Women’s Six Nations clash with Wales.
The Harlequins winger has been beset by ankle, back and shoulder injuries over the past year and was denied the opportunity to pull on the national team’s shirt again in last week’s 74-0 win away to Italy after testing positive for Covid-19.Breach, who has proved a prolific try-scorer for the Red Roses since grabbing six on her debut against Canada five years ago, is now fully recovered and hopes that will be the last of the issues ahead of Saturday’s showdown at Kingsholm. “This has probably been the toughest [time] I’ve faced so far,” Breach said. “Two or three seasons ago I had bad family news, but I still got to play which allowed me to switch off from that, but this year has been really tough.”I thought from my ankle injury I’d be ready to go from the beginning of the season, get some good games underneath going into the autumn, which wasn’t the case, and the back injury made me evaluate rugby and my life after rugby. Even at 24 years old, it made me think what do I want to do and achieve in life?”Getting Covid last week, I couldn’t really catch a break, but hopefully my bad luck has gone, and I’ll be raring to go for the back end of the season and get a good pre-season under me.”This weekend’s encounter in Gloucester pits two of the three teams still unbeaten after the opening rounds of this year’s tournament against eac …