The former Arsenal football manager Arsene Wenger never did enjoy international windows during his time with the Gunners.
“I feel like a man who has given the double of his key to a mate,” he once said. “The guy comes, takes your car, uses it for 10 days and leaves it in the middle of a field without any petrol.”
Players burnt out or even injured. Wenger ought to have tried his luck as a regional rugby coach.