LEIGH HALFPENNY will already have made a mental note to clear the decks for Sunday October 15 and the Scarlets’ opening round of the Champions’ Cup at Toulon. It takes his new club to the Med to face the one he left in acrimonious circumstances at the end of last season.
The repatriated Welshman will be wiser for the experience if still at a loss to understand why his former employers withdrew the contract which he says he agreed to sign before leaving to join the Lions. Contractually Halfpenny was entitled to do so but it was probably his undoing.
“You play all season wit...