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After the Tonga game, while ecstatic, he talked us through the agony.
He now has 76 caps, but his time away has made him look like a man who has just won his first cap. Was he nervous when he returned? Yes, but he was more nervous for his family because they wouldn’t have to wait because something else went wrong.
“I do everything for them at the end of the day,” he says of his wife, four children and extended family. “All those dark times in the summer, they were with me the whole time. So it was a celebration for them too, not just me.”
“It was really special, but I’m not going to lie, I saw them at the national anthem and I felt a little shaky, but it was okay. It was good.”
“I was excited to get back. I was a little rusty, but hopefully I can build on that.”
It’s been a tough summer. He was selected to go on his second Lions tour, and went south to suit up and get his boots on.
The excitement level was through the roof. At the top, there were himself, Tadhg Furlong and Will Stewart.
Furlong was the favorite for the Test jersey, but Fagerson was flying. Or at least he was flying.
No hard-liner has played more minutes in the Six Nations than the Scot. Those who saw him play regularly knew he was a suitable Test contender, but the first of his calf problems had appeared by then, so there was uncertainty in his head.
“I felt good and played well,” he said. “It was all taken away from me so quickly. I think I could have given a good account of myself in Australia.
“I tore my calf the first time and then I came back from that and got back into running and it was going well. And then I got the green light to keep pushing.
“And then in the same calf, I tore another one in a different muscle from a bunch of other things that we didn’t catch. So that was brutal.”
“I then got back to the point where this calf was big, but because I was compensating too much on my left side, it flared up too.”
Fagerson withdrew from the Lions’ lineup in early June. “There was a point where I was going to go out with the national team [Scotland were touring in New Zealand] And then maybe I will be called [for the Lions] He remembers then.
The injury ruined all of that.
“I was having a mental spiral, so I just said, you know, I just want to get some rest and get on with it,” he revealed.
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