The Gardeners' World Blog

The first tour of the Northern hemisphere by the Pacific Islanders - the combined forces of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga - was much anticipated.

Before their historic first match in Wales we all looked up that famous line which followed Western Samoa's victory over Wales in the 1991 World Cup - "Thank god we weren't playing the whole of Samoa", rubbed our hands in glee and waited for the bone-crunching tackles and strong running of the Islanders.

But most of all we waited for a rare sighting on the International scene of arguably the greatest talent in world rugby - Fiji's Rupeni Caucaunibuca.

However as so often in recent times we have mostly waited in vain.