WILL Welch is no stranger to injury, nor to Welford Road, the next venue on his comeback trail.
Concussion and ankle and calf injuries have prevented Welch taking to the field in anger since November last year so last Friday was a significant day on two counts.
The back rower played the full 80 minutes in the Falcons’ narrow defeat to Wasps, seven hours after the birth of his second son Max.
Max is brother to 14- month-old Rex, named after Welch’s grandad, Rex Skelton, who made nearly 200 appearances at tighthead for today’s opponents Leicester, from 1956 to 1970.
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