Players’ chief Damian Hopley: missing players would undermine World Cup

• European clubs are putting players under financial pressure to withdraw• Samoa’s Dan Leo: a second-string Samoa would leave a nasty taste• Robert Kitson: Union’s men in blazers still do not know how to run game Rugby’s global rulers have been urged to act swiftly to stop this year’s World Cup being seriously undermined by the withdrawal of numerous top players from the Pacific Island nations. London Irish’s Samoan forward Dan Leo has warned that up to a third of his country’s training squad could end up being unavailable because their European clubs are putting them under financial pressure …