The smile on George North’s face after the final whistle of the Ospreys v Scarlets game on Saturday evening said it all — the big man was delighted to be back.
The Ospreys had run in 50 points against their arch rivals and pretty much all had gone well for North in his comeback game after 12 months out. Had a writer handed the 30-year-old that as a script for the day before kick-off, doubtless he would have taken it with both hands.
He won’t get carried away, not least because he knows how quickly things can change in Welsh rugby. It wasn’t so long ago, after all, that North had been omitted by Wales and sent back to the Ospreys with Wayne Pivac’s words, that it had been easy to drop him, ringing in his ears.
