Ulster's James Hume determined to build back better

Ulster’s Player of the Year and the Rugby Writer’s Player of the Year James Hume found his hamstring injury sustained over the summer was dragging him into a rut

FRUSTRATING TIME: Ulster’s James Hume and Lorenzo Pani of Zebre Parma. Pic: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

He won’t shy away from it, after being named as Ulster’s Player of the Year and the Rugby Writer’s Player of the Year for his work last season, James Hume found his hamstring injury sustained over the summer was dragging him into a rut.

From trying to get back too soon, he tweaked an abdominal muscle and readily admits to having the foresight to ‘snap out’ of the rut he was in, not allowing it to go on for more than three days.