Edwill van der Merwe of the Lions after his side's victory in the United Rugby Championship against Connacht at The Sportsground in Galway, Ireland. (Piaras O Midheach/Gallo Images)
A day that was "gruelling but rewarding" … sports fans will be familiar with that cliché.
You could have applied that to Saturday, in reference to devout South African television viewers of rugby.
It’s not often your eyes barely stray for a moment from the gogglebox over the course of four completed first-class matches -- kick-offs varying between 15:00 and 21:35 -- but mine fell into that category, and I suspect I wasn’t alone.
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