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Even among the big men of Tongan rugby, Finau Maka stands out. It’s not just that he’s 1,9m tall or weighs in at a touch less than 114kg — there are bigger men in the breakfast room at the team’s hotel just outside Montpellier. Perhaps it’s the elaborate coiffure; that lollipop of hair that marks him out in the mayhem of a rugby field. More likely it’s the laugh.