The New Zealand Herald's Peter Bills looks at the farcial under-use of the salary-sapping, world-class tighthead Carl Hayman at Toulon.
"The whole incredible farce of Carl Hayman's non-season at French Top 14 club Toulon is finally at an end.
"Yet the wonder - the absolute bemusement - at how the club of the Mediterranean made Hayman, widely regarded as the No. 1 tight head in world rugby when he joined the club last June, the highest paid prop in the world at a reported 625,000 euros a season yet at the same time turned him into almost a complete nonentity as a player, continues.
"According to Toulon's own statistics, Hayman incredibly made just three starts in his entire first season with the club. His other 21 appearances were as a substitute.
"Yet to spend such a huge sum of money on one player out of the club's 20.8 million euros total budget and then sit him on the bench for almost the entire season, defies belief."
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