Haig Sare came off a lot better - and a lot worse - than Matt Henjak after the infamous right cross in a Fremantle bar which left the Western Force winger with a broken jaw and the scrumhalf with a busted career.

While Sare's injuries from the unseemly punch-up in the Left Bank were much more severe than his teammate, Henjak is still without a club, and seemingly without many takers, after his expulsion from the Force in February.

Slapped with his own eight week ban, Sare spent the time reflecting and recuperating - and was Thursday brought back into the Force fold and onto the bench for this Saturday's all-Australian clash with the NSW Waratahs.

And having seen what happened to the halfback - and realising it could also have been him - Sare says he is grateful at being allowed back, and having the chance to play rugby at all.

"All I can do is look at some positives and learn from this whole thing. If anything it made me realise how grateful I am to play rugby for a living," Sare told AAP.

"When there is an opportunity of that being taken away from you, you really stand back and say 'Well this is a huge honour'.

"I love playing for the Force, and this is what I have always wanted to do from a little boy at eight years of age.

"So the risk of losing that it makes you sit up and say: 'Well I am not going to be in that situation again'."

Force coach John Mitchell wasted no time in bringing Sare back into his reckoning, saying the 25-year-old's experience and versatility had weighed heavily in his favour.

"We are fortunate his timing of coming back is right. I don't discard people because of poor actions, you just hope they learn from it," Mitchell said.

"He has gone through a suspension and during that period he has had to work hard to get himself in the position.

"I don't know if he has learned from it, but he certainly has not buggered up since the last time."

Sare says what he has learned is the frustration of not being able play after a hard pre-season.

"Once I was able to start exercising I tried to put it all behind me and thought my season starts as of next week," Sare said.

"Normally this time of the year when you see the pads come out everyone cringes, but I have been itching to put them on.

"All that work, you need a little bit of contact that is why you play the game - so I am dying to get at it."

And Sare also says the support he has received from Force players - put under so much pressure by his and Henjak's actions - was a welcome surprise.

"When I was going through the tribunal, they were expressing their support from South Africa, and to Matt as well," Sare said

"The boys have been really supportive, and as soon as they got back from Africa I slipped straight back in.

"Everyone seemed happy to see me. We all realised what a terrible situation it was, but everyone was pretty positive.

"That was a nice surprise, I thought there may be some tension, but everyone was supportive so I was grateful for that."

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