Sam Burgess leaves Bath for rugby league return

Sam Burgess has left Bath with immediate effect and returned to rugby league just one season after switching to rugby union. “Whether he’s having second thoughts or not, that’s Sam’s decision”.

Craig also suggested Burgess, who was at the heart of England coach Stuart Lancaster’s most contentious selection issues before and during the 2015 World Cup, was called up to the worldwide side too soon and should not have been deployed as a centre.

It will bring an end to the premiership-winning forward’s ill-fated stint in rugby, which hit its low point during England’s failed World Cup campaign.

The hosts were knocked out of the tournament a week later when beaten by Australia, with Burgess coming on as a late replacement.

Leeds Rhinos chairman Gary Hetherington has announced his interest in a player that Bath allegedly paid £500,000 earlier this year. That’s where we see him and where his best qualities are and where Sam sees himself.

They didn’t, and he only played 15 minutes of England’s loss to Australia before being dropped from the matchday squad entirely for his side’s dead rubber against Uruguay. He was called into the World Cup training squad and made the final cut after only two Test caps.

Ford hopes the succession of big games will revive Burgess’ appetite for the game. We believe he does more of that when he is at six. “He’s been fantastic”, Hooper said.

“He has had a lot of stuff written about him and a lot of stuff written about his fiancee”.