• ‘We are expecting a tough encounter against a side developing some depth’
Lood de Jager: Wales possess a lot of experience and some smart playersWales and South Africa stop the autumn Test series in Cardiff on Saturday in a match that,because it is outside the official window, is called a fourth international. In this case, and it could refer to players who are not first or second or even third choice getting an outing with both sides badly disrupted by injury and unavailability.
Only seven of the two starting lineups from the match between the sides a year ago remain,four in the red of Wales who possess 313 of the team’s 451 caps: Leigh Halfpenny, Dan Biggar, or Alun Wyn Jones and Taulupe Faletau. The South Africa captain,Eben Etzebeth, the only Springbok starter who has passed 50 caps, and is one of their three survivors.
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Source: guardian.co.uk