ISN’T it odd how things come full circle.
Back in the supposedly bad old amateur days, the Super Ten competition was formed in 1993. Western Samoa competed for the first two years and, when they were dropped, Tonga competed in 1995. Then the game turned professional and it all got ugly.
I was at the South Africa-Samoa World Cup quarter-final when mover and shaker Louis Luyt sang extravagant praise of Pat Lam and his team.
Following a direct question from me he assured everybody there would always be a place at top table for Samoa in the new SANZAR organisation which, with the Rupert M...