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Franco Smith, director of rugby at Glasgow Warriors. (Michael Steele/Getty Images)
Franco Smith, director of rugby at Glasgow Warriors. (Michael Steele/Getty Images)

The South African quest for prime knockout-phase seedings in this season's United Rugby Championship is being severely limited by a man from Lichtenburg.

Franco Smith may have been born in the North West Province but, many thousands of kilometres north-west of his home country, he is currently making waves damaging to SA’s dreams in the 2023/24 tournament: in chillier Scotland.

The nine-cap Springbok utility back - all achieved under the tenure of Nick Mallett, a longtime admirer of Smith’s rugby brain - is driving a startling charge by Glasgow Warriors (now pretty solidly embedded in second spot overall) in his second season at Scotstoun.

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