CHRIS HEWETT

Top tip for rugby league players looking to make a name for themselves on the far side of the great schism: wait until you actually stop playing. Once you hang up your boots, you can easily secure a job for life as a defence coach.
There are obvious advantages to this strategy. It is far more fun – not to say beneficial to health and safety – telling other people to risk life and limb in the tackle, rather than doing the tackling yourself. And if you have a touch of the “fifth columnist” about you, the fact that you are helping to turn the 15-man game into the 13-man version wi...