Perhaps it's a sign of my vintage but it seems like just the other day a delighted Matt Proudfoot was briefing a cluster of rugby scribes, at a Western Province press conference, on the limitless potential of a teenage prop prodigy whose career, he claimed, was 'going to go all the way.
Turns out that was a dozen years ago and the Paul Roos stud in question was Steven Kitshoff, now among the most-capped players in Stormers history and, quite possibly, a few months removed from becoming a two-time world champion.
The front row was the secret to the Stormers' title-run last season and Kitshoff's immense contributions as a scrummager, mauler, carrier, tackler and even ball-hawk were (and hopefully will again be) central to South Africa's success at the World…
