Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu of South Africa takes on France's Maxime Lucu at the Stade de France in Paris on November 8th. Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images
The recently announced Nations Championship couldn’t have asked for better publicity than the Autumn Nations Series currently under way in Europe.
Epic confrontations between Scotland and the All Blacks, France and the Springboks, England and the All Blacks and Ireland and the Wallabies have set the northern hemisphere “fall” (for the fans in Chicago) alight this November. Perhaps the biggest battle of all, however, will be on Saturday in Dublin, when Andy Farrell’s Ireland host the “monster” Boks of Rassie Erasmus at the Aviva Stadium.
Monster is the operative word, given the Springboks’ apparent invincibility of late, even in the face of extreme adversity (ie red cards).
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