Speaking to Lloyd’s Scotland team-mates in the aftermath of her Olympics heartache, it was clear the disappointment was felt not just by her, but the whole squad.<\/p>\n
Lloyd was embraced back into the national set-up, where more than one colleague has described her as the heartbeat of the side.<\/p>\n
Her passion and enthusiasm for representing Scotland is infectious and, while the Olympics is unlikely to be the career-defining moment she imagined, Lloyd has reset what she wants from her time playing international rugby.<\/p>\n
“This season, I’ve been on a huge learning curve in terms of falling in love with rugby again,” Lloyd said. “Realising what I value on the pitch and what I value in my team-mates.<\/p>\n
“I’m really proud to kind of now be in a place that I’m so excited to get on the pitch with Scotland again. Even six months ago, I definitely wasn’t in that place.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been realising that I’m more than a rugby player and that I’m not defined by selection.<\/p>\n
“I really had that attitude going into this pre-season. I had goals for every session, like I always do. But my primary goal was just to enjoy playing rugby again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to Lloyd’s Scotland team-mates in the aftermath of her Olympics heartache, it was clear the disappointment was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-79465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}