Smal Beginnings ; but Gert Is Primed to Make a Big Impression

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THE traffic was the first thing to cross Gert Smal when he moved to Dublin. And when Ireland's new forwards coach sits opposite, nettling the South African does not seem a wise route to pursue. Smal is a big, big man, his appearance faithful to an early description of the former flanker: a bigger version of John Toshack.

Squeezed into a car amidst the early-morning city log-jam while he dropped his children to school tried his patience, which broke.

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Smal Beginnings ; but Gert Is Primed to Make a Big Impression

'My boy Dean is in Blackrock College,' Smal relates. 'Before, it took me an hour and a quarter to take him to school. I said, "I'm not going to waste that much time sitting in traffic in the morning", so we got a little apartment nea...

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