JEFF PROBYN A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

AT last we can put the woes of the rugby world behind us and look forward to some real competition, if only for a while as all the selected players try to state their case for being part of next season’s World Cup. As a once in every four years competition, the World Cup is something that players can only really get to focus on when they are in the squad in the year running up to it. For the years in between it’s an insignificant blot on the horizon as you focus on the real annual challenge of keeping in the squad. But all th...