Phil Vickery, the Gloucester prop who not only replaced him but contributed the all-important try, led England in their next game against Uruguay and consigned his fellow West Countryman to the periphery of red-rose life for the rest of the tournament. Hindmarsh, who is currently playing for the Canberra Raiders, has a British passport and says he wants to play Tests for Great Britain.. It is 18 months, give or take a few days, since Julian White, the most destructive scrummager in world rugby when he has a touch of the devil and a whiff of sulphur about him, fired a fusillade of blanks at the Samoans during a World Cup pool game in Melbourne and had his evening’s activity curtailed by Clive Woodward, whose subsequent knighthood might never have been bestowed upon him had the Pacific islanders – international union’s equivalent of a wet paper bag in set-piece terms – continued to embarrass the England pack for a few more minutes. He is replaced in their first-team squad by Ryan Clayton, the former Halifax and Castleford centre, who has signed for the rest of this season.”He has the potential to be a top-class Super League player,” said the Giants coach, Jon Sharp, who has immediately added him to the squad to face St Helens tomorrow in a quick re-match after a controversial Challenge Cup meeting.Saints’ narrow victory that day saw Sharp complain bitterly about a rough deal from the referee, but he says that will not enter into his thinking this time.”I’m not going to get drawn into revenge missions or grudge game type talk,” he said.Jamie Lyon will be back in Saints side after returning from a dash to Australia to be at the birth of his son.

Adam Scott played eight holes while Michael Campbell, Retief Goosen and Peter Hanson completed 36 – but they all share the lead after a confusing second day of the Johnnie Walker Classic here yesterday. Frank Endacott has warned his Widnes side that they face a second humiliation of the season at the hands of Leeds unless they lift their game today.
The Vikings were thrashed 66-8 at Headingley in February, but last Sunday’s 22-6 defeat by Salford was, in many ways, a worse performance.”If we play against Leeds like we did against Salford, it will be a massacre,” predicted the Widnes coach, who has added Andrew Emelio to those dropped for this game.Endacott has put his men through it in some tough training sessions this week. “Now we have to play with some fire in the belly.”Widnes, next to bottom of Super League and in danger of being cast adrift, are still without Owen Craigie, who has mumps, while Leeds have Gareth Ellis and Chris McKenna back after injury, but are without Danny McGuire with a broken hand and rest Barrie McDermott.Huddersfield have terminated the contract of their hooker or half-back, Sean Penkywicz, after he was suspended for two years by the Rugby League for taking the banned steroid, stanazolol. “There’s been more blood shed in those than there was against Salford,” he said. Lavilla, 30, deputised for the first two rounds of the season while Haydon was injured, but now holds second place in the points table after finishing on the podium in all four races so far.. Lap times and everything else are all there, they just need to come together now.”* The leading British Superbike contender, James Haydon, has given up his place in the Airwaves-Ducati team to Spain’s Gregorio Lavilla, who will try to win his first race of the season at Mallory Park, Leicestershire, tomorrow. “As far as riding and my confidence goes, I feel good and just want to get back out there.

“But it’s important to remember that this is still a test for us.”Fogarty has endured criticism after failing to win a race in more than two years of competition with his unusual three-cylinder bikes. But his fortunes could turn on the tight and twisty Valencia circuit.Martin, a 36-year-old Australian, qualified second at the previous World Superbike round in Australia and claimed his first podium position in the series at Valencia last year, on a Ducati. The 24-year-old Yorkshireman is seeking his first win of the year on the factory Xerox Ducati after seeing the Australian Troy Corser take three of the first four races.Toseland languishes in eighth place in the championship, and his French team-mate Regis Laconi has had to take the fight to Corser’s Alstare Suzuki squad.”I can’t afford to make any mistakes for the rest of the year,” Toseland admitted. “But now I now want to be fighting against the faster guys.”"I feel pretty confident,” Martin added. “I’m looking forward to continuing the development of the latest engine and seeing how this can improve our performance.”Britain’s reigning world champion, James Toseland, will battle to rescue a dismal start to the season. His fellow Australian McCoy, 33, won the 500cc Spanish Grand Prix here in 2000, beating the current MotoGP giants, Sete Gibernau, Alex Barros and Max Biaggi.”It’s still early days for us in terms of the season’s development,” McCoy said. Titanium parts have also helped to make it seven kilograms lighter.”This latest specification is more powerful and hopefully more reliable,” Fogarty said.

So far, the R25 has been competitive on all the types of circuit we have visited; I expect it will continue here.”. The four-times champion Carl Fogarty is hoping that a lighter motorcycle and an improved engine will revive the fortunes of his Foggy Petronas team in the third round of the World Superbike Championship here tomorrow. “We got good results on clean runs and now have the data we need to make our choice.”Imola is a very tough circuit for the suspension: we hit the kerbs hard, and the car needs to be able to cope with that. The drivers must be aggressive through the corners, which I like, and it is impossible to relax: if you get the line wrong over the kerbs, you will be in the gravel trap or the barrier.