Jamie Roberts hoping to be back for autumn tests – Rugby News Update
Jamie Roberts, the 25-year-old Cardiff Blues and Wales winger, who can also play in the centre, is hoping that he can return for the autumn internationals against Argentina, in November.
Roberts missed out on the tour of Australia, where his team lost the three-match test series by a clean sweep. He found it difficult to sit and watch it from home, when at the back of his mind he wanted to be out there.
"It has been hard watching, it has been heartbreaking especially when they have come that close," Roberts said. "I think they deserved a win and that's what makes it so hard.”
Wales ran Australia close in every test, losing the game in the last 10 minutes at Melbourne and Sydney. Roberts is of the opinion that a few months ago nobody would have given Wales a chance of coming even so close to the Wallabies. Wales went to Australia
at the back of winning the 2012 Six Nations Grand Slam, and were hoping to secure a series victory, but having not won Down Under for 43 years, it was always going to be difficult.
Roberts missed out on the tour, as he suffered a knee injury in March while playing for his club. He had to undergo surgery, and is hoping that he will get some game time before the autumn internationals come around.
"That is the target but you never know with these injuries - it could be sooner or later," Roberts told the
BBC. "I have been working hard with the rehab, so it's fingers crossed. I have done 11 weeks rehab now and I am probably another 12 to 13 weeks to go. It all depends about what happens when I start running, which will be in two weeks."
The British and Irish Lions are supposed to tour Australia in 2013 and having played for them twice before, he is hoping that he makes the cut for the tour. Roberts made his debut for Wales against Scotland in 2008, and so far he has played 44 matches for
his country, starting all but two games.
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