Ali plots his return

All Black lock Ali Williams, 29, “plots [his] international comeback” from the east Midlands where he is “exorcising a few mental demons as well as playing his first rugby for nearly two seasons.” Having suffered a serious achilles injury he is playing for a spell in the Championship with Nottingham getting himself mentally and physically right before attempting to reclaim his place in the New Zealand side. “Because I have been out of the game so long with injury, I had to get some rugby in before I came back to the top level,” Williams said. “It all depended on the timing and when I would be ready to play and it just so happened that January was the time and through Wayne [Smith], Nottingham came up. There are still demons and there are going to be demons until I’ve won that World Cup.” Williams is signed with New Zealand rugby until 2012.