Serfontein a potent mix of style and aggression

Still only 21, Serfontein has already established a reputation as something of a dump truck.

The Springboks arrived in Ireland last weekend with a new-found reputation for fancy rugby after their most recent displays against Australia and the All Blacks, but there is much that is still reassuringly familiar about the tourists.

Jan Serfontein, for example. Newish he may be, but he is a South African to the core. The Blue Bulls centre hails from venerable rugby stock. His great granddad Jack Slater played for South Africa, his father Jan lined out for Eastern Province and brother Willem was a junior captain with the Bulls and now plays for the Pumas in the Currie Cup.