ENGLANDwill be on a World Cup collision course with the most expensive wing in the game if Tonga succeed in repatriating a few nomadic All Blacks headed by the costly Charles Piutau.
The Ulster wing who joins Bristol next season on £950,000-a-year wants to play for his ancestral homeland in Japan in 2019 according to Tonga’s coach, the former Wallaby No. 8 Toutai Kefu. He is proceeding on the basis that a player can switch allegiance provided he holds a passport for the country in question and that he has not played Test rugby for three years.
Piutau played the last of his 17 in...
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