PETER JACKSON

VA’AIGA Tuigamala, the cross-code superstar, lay in state at Waitakere Stadium in suburban Auckland the day before his funeral last week.
Half a world away, Shaun Edwards took a few minutes out from preparing for France’s nervous night in Cardiff to tell a story about his friend and fellow Wigan Warrior, ‘Inga.’
“We used to box,’’ Edwards said, chuckling at the thought of conceding so much height and weight. “It was only light sparring and luckily he took it easy on me, a middleweight against a heavyweight.
“He hit me on the ear and I was spinning for a bit. If I didn’t u...