PROP Kyle Amor wants to jump straight back into pre-season training at Saints despite barely having time to unpack his bags since returning from World Cup duty in Australia and Papua New Guinea.

The big Cumbrian front rower, who qualifies for Ireland on the grandparent rule, put in some big performances in helping the Wolfhounds secure two wins in the group stages.

And after being overlooked at the back end of the Saints season, Amor feels his stint with Ireland was just the tonic his game needed.

And now he wants to kick back on at Saints and resume training rather than wait.

Amor said: “The World Cup with Ireland was brilliant – and one of the best things I have done.

“It allowed me to switch off and get back to enjoying something I like doing with as bit of fun in it again.

“Hopefully that will help me just keep riding that wave and hopefully do what I know I can do.

“Now I just want to see if I can jump straight back into it and get going again. I don’t want to be sat around doing nothing.

“With me not playing at the back end the year you kind of feel that I had my rest there and that allowed me to attack the World Cup and next season.”

The World Cup was a big positive for Amor – although he did get a bit of ribbing when the television commentators dropped a clanger by having him down as an “unattached” player.

“All the lads were laughing at me when they heard that – and there were a few comments on Twitter about it.

“I was thinking to myself, ‘have they sacked me while I have been over here’, but no, thankfully I am still here,” he said.

Ireland lost narrowly to Papua New Guinea and went out of the tournament – but it was close one and they departed with plenty of credit.

Amor lapped up the experience of playing in front of a crowd that was so passionate about their rugby league.

“It was not like something I’ve experienced before.

“When you consider that if we’d have beaten them we’d have been through and they’d have been out, their fans were still really friendly.

“When we came out for a warm up they were all clapping and cheering. If anyone did a big tackle or carry the who place erupted.

“They just absolute love rugby league there – it is their way of life and religion. The little kids were chasing after the buses, they just wanted to touch you.

“It was an unbelievable experience and something I’ll probably never get to do again.”

Amor caught the eye of the spectators and the commentators when he put in a thunderous hit on the first Kumuls ball carrier during that keenly fought tussle in Port Moresby.

Amor explained: “How all of those guys are made up you have to make sure every tackle has to be full on. You can’t half go in.

“We had a lot of stuff against us against – but we had a good group of honest, hard-working lads.

“If you look across the board we had a good mix of players – experienced and youth and having Louie in there was brilliant – a real ball of energy.

“Our job as the middle was to try and drive everything we possibly could.

“And the lads get involved off the back of that.

“It worked and we just ended up having fun playing rugby, which is something I needed to get back to doing,” he said.