Leigh Halfpenny prepares to fill the Toulon boots left by Jonny Wilkinson

Wales full-back is finally fit and hopes to get the nod tomorrow, when his new club face Scarlets from the old countryEven though Leigh Halfpenny knows the story ends with his right shoulder dislocated and dangling impotently as he is helped off the Twickenham pitch, he relives it with stubborn relish. In one frame Luther Burrell, Englands panzer of a centre, charges towards the try line; in the next Halfpenny five inches shorter and four stone lighter has scrambled to his left, dug in the shoulder hard and deep, and prevented a certain try.In between those micro-moments anticipation, react…

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