“We have enough problems as it is.”And yet he did concede the situation could change “It’s a fairly major decision,” Head continued. “We are in a position where we are not forced to make a decision early We have other concerns. We have got to make the car better and BMW have got to make their transition to being at a higher level.”Button is still learning the ropes and the circuits. That much was evident again at the weekend, when he crashed in practice and lost valuable running time. In qualifying he was never quite within reach of his team-mate. Sir Frank Williams said pointedly that the team were “looking for a little more”. In the race, Button lost the tip of his car’s nose when he bumped into Herbert.

Water leaked through the hole and caused the electrical fault which brought the Williams to a premature halt, but then the team knew Button was inexperienced and presumably anticipated such learning difficulties.The feeling is that Williams are merely keeping the youngster on his toes and in his place. Button and Coulthard have been mentioned as candidates for Jaguar, although the former Stewart Ford team would probably prefer a German driver to exploit their lucrative appeal in this country Heinz-Harald Frentzen would fit the bill.. Leeds’ chief executive, Gary Hetherington, is in Australia checking out the availability of a list of players – reputedly headed by the Test winger, Mat Rogers – who could improve his club’s fortunes. Leeds’ chief executive, Gary Hetherington, is in Australia checking out the availability of a list of players – reputedly headed by the Test winger, Mat Rogers – who could improve his club’s fortunes.
Hetherington will watch Rogers play for Queensland in the State of Origin match in Brisbane tomorrow, but he also has a wide range of other options to improve a team currently struggling in Super League.

“It is mainly for next season and it is not a knee-jerk reaction,” said a Leeds spokesman. “It is something Gary has had planned for a month or more and he is checking whether players who are said to be interested in coming to Leeds really are interested.”Leeds, with just three wins from 11 games this season, have been linked with the international-class stand-offs, Matthew Johns and Anthony Mundine, but the prospect of bringing Rogers to Britain might prove more tempting. The son of the Test centre, Steve Rogers, he has established himself as an automatic choice in the Australian side. Rogers is regarded as the best goal-kicker in Australia, although that is an area that seems well looked after at Leeds by Iestyn Harris, who on Friday became only the 10th player in the club’s history to reach 1,000 points.The former Leeds, Castleford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Great Britain coach, Malcolm Reilly, is being linked with Newcastle Knights for next season. The Knights, who are also thought to be interested in Bradford’s Matthew Elliott, may offer Reilly the chance to repeat his success of 1997, when he led them to their only Premiership. Reilly has been without a club job since being squeezed out by Huddersfield’s merger with Sheffield during the close season and is pursuing a case for wrongful dismissal.One of Wales’ most distinguished exports to rugby league, Trevor Foster, has called for the Challenge Cup final in 2002 to be played in Cardiff. Following the success of this year’s final in Edinburgh and with next year’s scheduled for Twickenham, Foster, the president of the Wales Rugby League Players’ Association, said going to the Millennium Stadium “would attract phenomenal interest”.Enthusiasts hoping to bring professional rugby league back to Gateshead and Bramley will state their case to the All-Party Parliamentary Group today..

Bedford’s Jerseys are coloured Oxford and Cambridge blue, they have always been known to their supporters as The Blues and, in recent seasons at least, blue has described their state of mind as the Goldington Road club have teetered from one crisis to another. Bedford’s Jerseys are coloured Oxford and Cambridge blue, they have always been known to their supporters as The Blues and, in recent seasons at least, blue has described their state of mind as the Goldington Road club have teetered from one crisis to another.
Back in the amateur days, Bedford were never one of England’s grandest clubs,always being in the shadow of their more prosperous and fashionable East Midlands neighbours, Northampton and Leicester, though their right to be regarded as one of the nation’s élite was never in doubt. They had always provided their quota of international players, including their most gifted son, Budge Rogers, who broke Wavell Wakefield’s record as England’s most capped player in 1969, and held it for five years until overhauled by the Bristol hooker John Pullin. Rogers is the next president of the Rugby Football Union and, when 35, led Bedford to their only Twickenham Cup final success in 1975.When Bedford were in their pomp in the Sixties and Seventies they could also call on Jacko Page, Tony Jorden, Neil Bennett, Derek Wyatt, Bob Wilkinson and David Perry, all of whom were capped by England; Perry, like Rogers, as captain.When the game went professional in 1995, they had just been promoted from the old Third Division.