WALES lock Mike Voyle (pictured) has put an end to the doubts about his immediate future by flying back from New Zealand declaring "I'm jumping out of my skin to play for Newport again."

Voyle has returned to Rodney Parade after making a difficult decision which meant his family staying in New Zealand.

He left Cardiff at the end of last season to set up home in New Zealand with his wife, who is from that country, and young child, with another baby due. But he answered an SOS from Newport to help them out for three months in the absence of the injured Ian Gough.

He played so well, starring in the line-out, that Newport gave him the option to return from a November break in New Zealand.

"Coming back was what I always wanted to do, but if my family had said otherwise I would have stayed in New Zealand," said Voyle.

"A lot was happening there with a new baby due in a few months, but we are managing it. "I didn't have a good time at Cardiff and it didn't work out for me for whatever reasons. "But it is at Newport. It's great wearing the old black and amber again, it's a good environment with good coaching and a great bunch of players.

"I feel I'm at a club where people want me - and that's important. Now this has given me a chance to finish things off.

"I've had a break which has been good for me and I'm jumping out of my skin. "The demands are great and you don't often get a rest, but I'm feeling pretty good." Voyle had played in all Newport's first 12 games and should have been in the Wales A team had he not returned to New Zealand.

"My ambition is to play well and put everything into that," said Voyle, adding, "I'm not here just to make the numbers up.

"I want to be competing against all the other locks and put in my performances to let people know I'm around.

"But I'll stick with the present and not look too far ahead. If something comes that will be good." It's back to Donnybrook for Newport on Friday and a third clash with Leinster in five weeks, this time in the Celtic League quarter-finals.

"We're all quite keen to get out to Dublin and get a result," said Voyle.