Few names are more synonymous with Canterbury, South Island and New Zealand rugby league than Frank Endacott ONZM – which put the universally admired former coach at the top of the South Island NRL Bid’s wishlist to be the organisation’s inaugural President.

Duane Fyfe’s rugby league journey began with the Waiouru Bobcats and has encompassed far-flung and disparate destinations like East Timor, the Middle East, Europe and North America.

An out-of-the-blue enquiry from a Sydney-based writer set Tony Kidd on a path from initial sceptic to a role at the forefront of a potential club in the thick of the NRL expansion mix….