Leinster senior coach Jacques Nienaber. (Harry Murphy/Gallo Images)
It didn’t take long for poor Jacques Nienaber’s name – or rather his influence – to come up in Ireland’s first press conference in South Africa on Tuesday.
Anyone who knows the former Springbok coach and current Leinster senior coach has a fair understanding of how publicity shy he is.
But as the man who took the world champions’ infamous defence – swarm by suffocating swarm – to his new role at Leinster, he suddenly finds himself as a common point of reference for both sides in the build-up to the eagerly anticipated two-Test series between South Africa and Ireland.
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