CHRIS HEWETT

Stanley Kubrick would have loved him. Eben Etzebeth, that is. If the great movie director were still with us, he would cast the Springbok lock on the basis of his stare alone. “There’s no script, Eben: I won’t be needing you to say anything.”
Theoretically speaking, Allan Ala’alatoa is not one of life’s natural pushovers: he may be a Wallaby prop – aspecies not always renowned for exerting physical dominance – but at a full 6ft and 19st plenty, he stacks up well enough on the tale of the tape. Unfortunately for him, vital statistics don’t count for much when Etzebeth is on you...