Howlett still hoping to fulfil World Cup dream

DOUG HOWLETT hasn’t shut the door on a possible return to New Zealand at the end of this season and bid to reclaim his place in the All Blacks squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Howlett’s two-and-a-half-year deal with Munster expires next summer and New Zealand’s record Test try scorer (48 tries in 58 All Black Test) admits that playing for the All Blacks in the RWC at home would be “a huge draw-card”.

He does admit that any decision will be lifestyle rather than rugby-based, but following RWC exits to Australia in 2003 and four years later against France in Cardiff, he has some unfinished international business.