IT IS difficult to know how many copies of David Copperfield are bought by members of the South Seas rugby community each year, but anyone reading his Dickens will view the executives who run SANZAR as Micawbers in reverse.
They are always waiting for something to turn down. For years now, the Fijians, Samoans and Tongans have been pleading for a stage on which to perform, other than the annual Test windows, when important players are either too knackered to run or hopelessly entangled in dodgy club contracts, and the quadrennial World Cups, when they are expected to play the house down for...