Danielli exorcises ghosts of Paris defeat.Scotland 26 Italy 6 SCOTLAND winger wing·er n. Sports A player who plays wing, as in hockey or soccer. winger Noun Sport a player positioned on a wing Noun 1. Simon Danielli Simon Charles Jonathan Danielli (born 8 September 1979 in Edinburgh) is a rugby union player who plays on the wing for Ulster and Scotland. Danielli joined The Borders from Bath in September 2004, where he had been since the summer of 2001, prior to which he played for exorcised his Paris ghosts with a man-of-the-match performance against Italy in the Six Nations. Danielli was surprisingly recalled to the Scotland side in place of fit-again Northampton winger Sean Lamont Sean Lamont (born 15 January 1981 in Perth) is a rugby union player who plays on the wing for Northampton Saints and Scotland. In 2000 Lamont joined Rotherham and was the club’s under-21 captain in 2001. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games he represented Scotland at sevens. for the match against France. It was the first Test start he had made for his country since the first Test of last summer's tour to Argentina. But his return to Scotland colours was not a happy one as Danielli knocked on a couple of times as France held on for a narrow victory. Danielli said: "This game showed just how fickle rugby can be sometimes. If I hadn't dropped those couple of balls in Paris then I probably would have come off the field thinking I'd done okay. "That played on my mind for the past two weeks as you think 'what if' and 'why did I drop that' and analyse your own performance and that's something I was very well aware of. "I was fairly realistic coming into this championship because I'd had only three games for my club before the Six Nations started. "The others players in my position had had more game time and I knew that would count against me but like everything you've got to just wait for your chance and try to take it." |
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