IMAGINE a team from Africa competing in a European tournament. Then imagine said African team, from the Orange Free State, playing its home matches 6,000 miles away in Wales at a venue they have never seen.
The Cheetahs will swop Bloemfontein and the advantage of playing at altitude in the summer heat of the High
Veldt for the delights of being beside the seaside on Sundays at Swansea in mid-winter. There, at the reconstructed St Helen’s ground, they will be at home for one match before Christmas (Dragons, December 13) and back again for another in the New Year (Perpignan, Jan...