Newly crowned Rugby Championship winners South Africa have welcomed back four World Cup winners to their squad that will tour the United Kingdom next month.
Springboks great Albert van den Berg says he would love to put one over on his former coach Jake White.
White’s team have twice fallen at the last hurdle in the first three years of the competition, losing finals to the DHL Stormers and Glasgow Warriors.
Pre-season was only a few weeks old when the Sale boss giddily enthused about the character of his Stormers signing, describing him as one of the “smiliest, happiest” people he had ever encountered.
In the end, this second semi came down to a training ground play that Bath would have executed time and time again out at Farleigh.
Tom Curry is set to play for the first time since October after he was named on a bench that has a six/two forwards/backs split.
Saturday’s round 18 match at the StoneX will be crucial in determining the end-of-season semi-final line up.