Could Munsters Lifeimi Mafi play for Ireland in the same way Flutey has qualified for England?
Duncan Gleadhill, Ireland According to the IRB regulations, a player who has played for the senior fifteen-a-side National Representative Team or the next senior fifteen-a-side National Representative Team (‘A’) or the senior National Representative Sevens Team of a Union is not eligible to play for the corresponding teams of another Union. Lifeimi Mafi represented New Zealand in eight major Sevens tournaments between 2003 and 2005 while he was a Manawatu (and later Taranaki) player before joining Munster soon afterwards. He is therefore ineligible to play senior international rugby for anyone except New Zealand. The tributes to Wales’s Horace Phillips, who died earlier this month, stated that his only cap was in a Grand Slam-clinching side? Have any other Welshmen won their sole caps in matches which sealed a Grand Slam? Anon Horace Phillips died in Mumbles on December 11, aged 81. His only cap was against France on his home club ground at St Helen’s in Swansea in 1952. Wales won a do
