Jenkins' recall clouds RG Snyman's Bok future: 'Is this guy going to make it to the World Cup?'

There was a time when Jason Jenkins and RG Snyman - as Bulls teammates - were expected to form a potentially peerless lock combination for the Springboks.

But life's inevitable twists and turns now sees the two men - who've both had major injury troubles - essentially competing for each other's spot in the national squad, a fact even Rassie Erasmus admitted to.

On Friday, Jenkins was confirmed as one of the few interesting selections for the end-of-year tour to Europe, which commences with a white-knuckle affair against Ireland in Dublin.

Incidentally, the former St Albans pupil now calls the Irish capital his hometown since joining Leinster, where he's been terrorising opponents in this season's URC campaign to date, enough to convince the national team's management to reward him with a recall.

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"Jason has a cap for South Africa, ironically our first Test in charge as a group in 2018. After that, he left abroad and just had a bad run with injuries, especially once he joined Munster," said Bok head coach Jacques Nienaber.

"He played 10 games and only started 20% of them. This year, he's played five matches for Leinster and he's playing good, consistent rugby. He's starting games and finishing them too, he's really playing good rugby."

It's confirmation of the esteem he's been held in despite only having one Test cap to his name.

As former Wales and Lions hooker Robin McBryde noted earlier this month, the fact that Leinster - nowadays notoriously diligent when it comes to remotely recruiting foreign players - came knocking for him despite his disrupted campaign with Munster vividly illustrates his potential worth.

"I'm sure they would have done