• Prop has been out since May with hamstring injury• Vunipola at lowest weight since 2016 Australia tourNo
England player is keener to run around a rugby field this bank holiday weekend than Mako Vunipola, who is set to make his long-awaited comeback from injury against
Ireland on Saturday.
The Saracens prop has not been available to Eddie Jones since the Champions Cup final in mid-May but is now ready to resume national service. It has been a long, eventful slog for the loosehead who tore the tendon at the top of his hamstring so badly the muscle became detached from the bone. An operation was required and only now can he joke about how he was transported in a wheelchair across
Los Angeles airport en route to Tonga where he was the best man at his brother Billy’s wedding.