1 Authority at half-back.

As if things weren’t bad enough, Saracens finished on a high with their third try of the day accompanied by that despicable Chris Ashton swan dive.

Rod Nawn rates the Ulster men in a Payne-less game.

Munster, Ulster and Leinster have all given steps up to inexperienced squad members in naming their additional players for the European knockout stages next month, as former provincial Heineken Cup winners Peter Stringer and Rocky Elsom boosted squads elsewhere.

FRENCH star Dimitri Yachvili is mystified fellow scrum-half Peter Stringer is no longer part of the Ireland set-up.

Irish flanker Sean O’Brien has been chosen by the IRB as one of the five best performers at the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand.

South Africa 87 Namibia 0

HT: South Africa 31 Namibia 0

THE Samoan with the unpronounceable double-barreled name called it ‘slavery’ and duly gave the World Cup organisers both barrels.

Fiji 49 Namibia 25

LEINSTER could come face to face with Gavin Henson this weekend after the enigmatic Welsh back was added to Saracens’ Heineken Cup squad.

MUNSTER have lost another first choice player through suspension for Saturday’s Heineken Cup clash with Toulon at Thomond Park.

Connacht 5 Saracens 22, the Sportsground

FRANCE winger Cedric Heymans is confident he will be fit to face Namibia in their Pool D clash tomorrow (8pm).

Namibia have made three changes, one positional, to their starting line-up for Sunday’s Pool D Clash with France in Toulouse.

Namibia number eight Jacques Burger expects the back row to be the key battleground in tomorrow's World Cup clash with Ireland.

NAMES like Kees Lensing and Jacques Burger will mean little or nothing to the vast majority of Irish rugby fans this morning.