Lachie Turns The Screws On Another Super Rugby Season
by Brendan Bradford -
Lachie Turner is ready to go. After a long and arduous preseason, the Waratahs and Eastwood winger can finally put the torture of the Coogee stairs behind him and focus on rugby as the side prepares for its first trial match against the Melbourne Rebels in Hobart on February 2nd.
“Cheik gave us the message the other day that we’d done our last stairs session for the preseason,” Turner said after training on Friday.
“Needless to say, the boys are pretty happy about that one and now we’re just holding on and waiting for the games to start.”
The Waratahs will likely head into the season as one of the fittest teams in the competition but for Turner, who missed the first half of last year with a torn hamstring, this preseason was particularly important.
“It’s been five years since