In the more moderate php teams striving for a glimpse of past glories over the last couple of seasons, it has been all too obvious.There have been times when he has contemplated leaving www Widnes. I never had the ability of someone like Andy Gregory."What he omits to say is that he is precisely the sort of committed and consistent performer that index more obviously gifted players relish having www php alongside them. With his seniority, he could be tempted to assume that such is his due. "But I've never counted on staying in one position," he says. "Circumstances could change and they might need me somewhere else. I've always been pretty flexible."Despite his achievements, which include eight caps for Great Britain, the elder Hulme brother takes an unpretentious view of his qualities as a player."I've always been a worker and a index php team player, and that's what php I'll be remembered for, rather than any www index skills. In sides packed with the likes of php Jonathan Davies and Martin Offiah, it might have www index been easy to type-cast them as the willing drudges; however, they are now the very heartbeat of the team.Although he has played for both club and country at stand-off and has frequently filled in at loose forward, David has been restored to www index his specialist position of scrum-half this season.

"And with so many players leaving over the last few years, it has become more and more important to have a couple of experienced players around," David says.The importance of the Hulmes in holding things together during trying times at Naughton Park can hardly be overstated.

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David has just turned 31, while Paul will be 29 next month.Having both joined Widnes straight from school and never having played anywhere else, they seem to have been around for much longer. "He's definitely a relic, because he's a lot older than me," insists Paul, who will be his usual hyperactive self at loose forward in this most demanding of cup ties. In fact, there is little more than two years between two players whose uncompromising style on the field has earned them the soubriquet of rugby league's brothers Grimm. They might not like to think of themselves in quite this way, but the Hulme brothers of Widnes are walking museum pieces. When they play for their home-town club against Wigan in the quarter-final of the Silk Cut Challenge Cup today, David and Paul will be the remaining link with the era in which Widnes and not Wigan were the real power in the land.

"Bowe isn't comfortable against guys who give him motion," Atlas said "He gets frustrated and does silly things. He doesn't concentrate."Mickey Duff thinks enough of Hide's chances to place a fairly substantial bet on him. Having given the issue methodical attention, a personal view is that Bowe will win inside the distance But that is thinking logically.. Simple as that."Really? Some in boxing do not see it that way at all. Teddy Atlas, who trains Moorer and worked with Tyson, believes that Hide will give Bowe plenty of trouble. He hasn't had my type of experience, and at some point in the fight he'll have to gamble. And that's when he'll be putting himself in a position to be taken.