Sonny Bill Williams is set to return home and wants to be an All Black. Well Sonny-boy – keep dreaming.
The former big-hitting Bulldog and one-time boxer is homesick and wants to move from Toulon to Auckland and play for Counties-Manukau, or the blue and whites, in the Air New Zealand Cup. In doing so, he will follow idol Tana Umaga who is reportedly contracted as a player-coach from June.
Wendell Sailor, Mat Rogers, Lote Tuqiri and Timana Tahu all tried, but largely failed, to succeed as league converts to union and returned to the game they once dominated.
But can Sonny do what they couldn't?
Take incumbent All Blacks centre Conrad Smith.
The 28-year-old is arguably the best defensive centre in world rugby, at the very least he is an intelligent and astute reader of the game. His silky distribution skills feed and complement some of the best finishers who are stationed outside him.
While his support play, which often sees Smith pop-up ever so timely to complete a movement, is another feature needed in union.
Forget Smith for a minute - what about Richard Kahui?
Is Williams likely to out-play the abrasive 24-year-old Waikato hitman? Don't count on it.
Williams, even in league, was never a great long-passer. Yes, his ability to off-load in the tackle in the 13-man code was unmatched, but with two extra players and 20 metres less space his skills have been nullified in France.
As a back he also lacks genuine pace. Hence Toulon touting the idea of moving Williams into the forward pack, not such a silly idea given it's where he played the majority of his 124 matches for the Doggies – as a second-rower.
He has only played 15 matches for Toulon, scoring two tries, and one game for the Barbarians – where he looked horribly out of his depth - albeit in a makeshift side.
His loyalty and motives must also seriously be questioned.
In July 2008, the Mount Albert-born rugby league god walked out mid-way through his first season into a five-year $2.5million contract at the Bulldogs and left his team-mates languishing at the bottom of the NRL table, the Kiwis in a World Cup year and also a large Polynesian community who revered him as their ultimate hero.
When he signed the deal to keep him at the Sydney club until 2012 he said: "I want to be a Bulldog for life. The club is just as much a part of me a part of me as I am of the club. I love the Bulldogs."
At the time he was 22-years-old and Toulon paid a 300,000 pound transfer-fee so they could secure the 108kg muscle-bond giant to play centre.
Now 24, he wants out again and after a conversation with Graham Henry in January, he wants to be an All Black.
There is no doubting Williams was well on the way to being one of league's greatest when he left Australia to chase the big bucks because of the NRL's salary cap restrictions.
However, now things are lonely. He's not the sought-after superstar and a place in the much-loved All Blacks would be ideal to rekindle that popularity.
Sorry Sonny - it's not going to happen.
You don't have what it takes to wear the All Blacks jersey.
Go back to league where you were loved and will always belong.