"I just need to stay injury-free and make sure I am on the plane. It will be a nervous month ahead. I came back disappointed in 2005 because of the injury. I started the tour well, but the knee became too painful and meant I couldn't get involved in the Test set-up. I hope to make amends in South Africa.

"It was great to go on one tour, but to be selected for a second is extra special - it's a brilliant feeling. But I want to get in the Test team, and that's the next goal. I won't be going there to make up the numbers. It will be tough because Brian was the player of the Six Nations - and deservedly so."

"My contract expires at the end of the year. I have always had an open mind about playing overseas at some stage," he told South African newspaper Die Burger. "I will do that at some point in the future" De Villiers told Die Burger. At this stage my focus is to recover from my groin injury and to be ready for the series against the Lions. I will make a decision about my future after that."

"I had my doubts about it for the past two or three days," Goze told French paper L'Independant. "With the departure of Wilkinson, the English club raised the bidding. We were no longer on the same wavelength. There was also another problem, regarding the availability of the player. We really wanted him to be here for the start of our season and not at the end of the NPC (National Provincial Championship) in October. By the end of October, we will have almost finished the first half of next season's Top 14."

The 29-year-old is set to be sidelined for at least six weeks, ruling him out of the rest of the Super 14, with further tests planned to reveal the severity of the break.

"I'm trying to find another club and weighing up my options at the moment," he told The Western Mail. "I've had a few offers from a couple of clubs but can't say too much. I just want to stay up in the Guinness Premiership or maybe come home to Wales. If I have any aspiration of playing for Wales again I have to be playing top flight rugby.

"I still feel I can offer Wales something. I firmly believe I'm good enough and would love to go on tour in the summer."

"I wasn't looking for another chance," he said. "I was looking for a last chance. Whether they [NZRU] didn't believe I could do that, I'm not sure. But in the end they weren't prepared to go down that route. "What I had to do was salvage the best possible outcome for me. That was this exit package and that's the path I'm on."

"It was a six out of ten today and I'm pretty happy," said Japan head coach John Kirwan. "We were put under a lot of pressure by Hong Kong, especially in the first half but I'm happy with the way we finished."

Four first and four second half tries made for a comfortable victory for the 'Reds', whose Army Rugby Union has been battling the Navy at rugby since 1878.