Fit-again Bowe only thinking positives as critics dismissed

TOMMY BOWE will be more than happy to swap the commentary box for the pitch this Sunday after recovering from the knee injury that kept him out of the first two RBS Six Nations games of the campaign.

After coming through a full 80 minutes of Magners League action for Ospreys last weekend, the winger was recalled to the Ireland side for the game with Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday. And despite the wave of criticism the Irish team received in the games he missed against Italy and France, Bowe is extremely upbeat about the camp he has rejoined. “I think there’s been a little more made of it than what’s being going on at training,” Bowe said in response to reports of anxiety on the practice field.

“Obviously in training you’re trying not to drop the ball and when the small errors creep in I suppose it does get in your head a little bit, but it’s not something we’re worried about.