North is a hot property following an outstanding Rugby World Cup campaign
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Scarlets' George North struggles to evade the limelight after superb Rugby World Cup showing with Wales. The Daily Telegraph's Steve James reports.
"Last weekend George North was nervous before the Scarlets’ home match against Castres. It was his Heineken Cup debut after all.
"Nothing unusual in such emotions, except that not many players take such a bow at 19 years old, with 15 international caps, seven of them at a Rugby World Cup where he was picked in many pundits’ team of the tournament, already in the personal cabinet.
“It’s been a nuts year,” North confesses. Indeed it has. A year ago he was on only a development contract at the Scarlets, earning peanuts, when he was summoned to play against South Africa at the Millennium Stadium. He duly scored two tries, and so began a remarkable story that not even shoulder surgery after his third cap (against New Zealand) last autumn could scupper.
"Sometimes, though, fast steep climbs can shock young minds. Not on the pitch, where North was a stunning man of the match against Castres and continues to amaze with his influence upon matches, but off it where North is not entirely comfortable with the attention he is receiving."
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