Austin heals Leicester rifts

Austin Healey has finalised a three-year deal with Leicester and promised England there will be no repeat of the conduct which landed him in trouble with the Lions.

Healey will attend a disciplinary hearing in Dublin on September 6 after calling Australian lock Justin Harrison ?a plank? and ?a plod?.

But Healey insists: ?It will never happen when I play for England. I would do nothing to jeopardise that.

?The standards Clive Woodward has set make it perfectly clear what the outcome would be if I did say something. Besides, what is there to criticise??

He added: ?I have no desire to play for another club at present. We have now agreed a new contract which I hope to sign very soon.?

Kevin Yates, back in the English Premiership with Sale after two seasons of Super 12 rugby with the Wellington Hurricanes, is still protesting his innocence over the notorious ear-biting incident during Bath?s Pilkington Cup- tie against London Scottish four seasons ago.