Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus named a strong 33-man squad led by double Rugby World Cup-winning captain Siya Kolisi for the Rugby Championship, which kicks off against the Wallabies in Brisbane on Saturday, 10 August. Twenty-two…
Grant Williams has shown enough in his two appearances from the bench in the two tests in the Rugby Championships against Australia and New Zealand that he deserves a start against Argentina.
“Our plan was to win the Rugby Championship and to assess the players and we’ve got some good answers from these two games. We’ve got one more game in the Championship and then three warm-up games to complete that process.
Eben Etzebeth’s father, Harry Etzebeth, has tragically passed away on Tuesday night on the same day that his son was named as the captain of the Springbok team to face the All Blacks
Eben Etzebeth is a vastly experienced player with 110 Test caps. He’s captained the Springboks before and he has been with the group of players in New Zealand for over a week, so he is the ideal person to lead the team this weekend.”
Springboks assistant coach Mzwandile Stick has praised winger Kurt-Lee Arendse’s fine performance and disagrees with those who say the Boks have picked a B-team against Australia.
Quade Cooper will make his Wallabies return in the opening Rugby Championship clash playing against for the first time against the Springboks in South Africa since 2013. The 35-year-old flyhalf, who hasn’t played for the…
“We need to work a bit harder and need to create a style of rugby that is quintessentially Australian,” says Eddie Jones.
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