Donal Lenihan: Get ready for Ireland—France II at the Aviva
Five of the Toulouse pack featured in the Six Nations for France.
CLASH OF THE TITANS: Robbie Henshaw of Leinster during the Heineken Champions Cup Semi-Final match between Leinster and Toulouse at Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Pic: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
SOUTH AFRICAN rugby has faced many challenges over the years but never suffered from any sense of an inferiority complex.
When the Springboks famously won the 1995 World Cup — the first they’d participated in due to their exile from the international game theretofore because of the apartheid regime — they wasted no time in proclaiming that, had they been allowed participate at the first two tournaments in 1987 and 1991, they would have won those as well.
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