The big impact South African sides have made in the Vodacom URC has come as no surprise to Michael Ala’alatoa, and Leinster’s Samoan prop knows their threat of old from his time playing Super Rugby with the Crusaders in New Zealand.
The big impact South African sides have made in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship has come as no surprise to Michael Ala’alatoa, and Leinster’s Samoan prop knows their threat of old from his time playing Super Rugby with the Crusaders in New Zealand.providing the opposition in a top-of-the-table clash at the RDS on Friday night.
“Having them on board has been a positive thing for rugby over here and for the URC competition. It’s given it a bit more life and a bit more variety in terms of different types of rugby. “So we see this as being one of the biggest games of the season, especially for the group that we have. We have obviously got a few guys returning from international duty, but we’ve had a young squad with a lot of Academy players for the last few weeks and they have stepped up and done really well.
With his father Vili having also been a Samoan Test prop and his younger brother Allan a Wallaby tighthead, rugby is very much in the blood for Ala’alatoa.