CHRIS HEWETT

Rugby has always been a game of Big Ideas: Carwyn James, the patron saint of Stradey Park, was a thinker of weight and significance; Jack Rowell, the last England coach of the amateur era, fancied himself as an intellectual giant; Jonny Wilkinson’s mind-bending struggles with Schrodinger’s cat became the stuff of legend.
Unfortunately, one of the philosophical propositions most relevant to our straitened times – namely, the “less is more” theory of life – is far from the top of the agendas that matter, as the bumper salaries of the Twickenham executive class demonstrate all to...