Thomas Du Toit retains fond memories of Munster

Thomas Du Toit should have really just been fighting off the jetlag but he looked for all the world yesterday like a guy whose head was still in the clouds after being parachuted onto the South African bench for tomorrow’s Pool B encounter with Namibia.

This isn’t where he expected to be. Du Toit was in Toulouse at the weekend when he got the call to drop everything and fly over to Japan. Trevor Nyanke had torn his right calf against New Zealand in the side’s opener last Saturday and Rassie Erasmus needed a replacement.