By PETER JACKSON

All smiles: Tom Litchfield scores for NorthamptonPICTURE: Getty ImagesLEIGH Halfpenny will miss Wales’ entire season of nine internationals, from the All Blacks next month to the Six Nations finale against Italy next year.The bravest of full backs has abandoned hope of playing a part in the defence of the European title won last season. Instead he plans to return next April for the closing weeks of the Scarlets’ domestic campaign.A World Cup semi-finalist in New Zealand in 2011 and again in Japan eight years later, Halfpenny will be driven by the lon...