NICK CAIN
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THERE is often a gap as wide as the Grand Canyon between a good idea and a botched version of it, which is a bad one.
The picture of plans for a World League being painted this week were in the bad category, with World Rugby accused of botching them so badly that the whole scheme was heading for the knackers yard. This started with the leak in a New Zealand newspaper of a blueprint which prompted a storm of protest because it claimed that the Pacific Island nations are going to be excluded from the World League.
It stated also that the 12-tea...