As Ireland hunkers down for the arrival Thursday of Hurricane Lorenzo (has a weather event ever sounded as masculine?), over in Japan the boys in green are slowly moving on from the wreckage of last Saturday’s storm in Shizuoka.

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Felix Jones could join the Springboks coaching set-up ahead of the World Cup, according to reports in South Africa.