- More injury concerns for Springboks Rugby: South Africa’s former Munster centre Jean de Villiers and number eight Willem Alberts missed the squad's final training session before their tour of Europe through injury earlier today. The injury-ravaged world champions face the prospect of playing Ireland in Dublin on Saturday without any match-fit centres.
- Kidney has strong hand for a kind of homecoming THE IRELAND team to play South Africa in the Aviva Stadium on Saturday in the first Test of the season and the first international at the revamped Lansdowne Road falls along fairly predictable lines and, while far from the optimum strength of this stage a year ago, it looks a good deal more experienced than last June.
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