Rocky Elsom has rejected former Wallaby great Tim Horan's suggestion he is burdened by the test captaincy. The New Zealand Herald reports.
"Horan last month argued the task of leading the Wallabies would prevent Elsom living up to his reputation as arguably the world's most feared blindside flanker.
"I believe the captaincy burdens Rocky too much," Horan explained. "The only way I think you see the best from Rocky Elsom is when he doesn't have the [captaincy or vice-captaincy] next to his name."
"But the 28-year-old Brumbies stalwart who is slowly recovering from a hamstring injury, disagrees. "Well, nothing is coming to mind to support that," Elsom said yesterday. "Obviously I don't appoint myself, but I'm happy in the role and I'm pretty keen to get into it [at the World Cup]."
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