The battle for number 8 is on!
March 11, 2013 in International, Rugby, Springboks, Super Rugby
With Pierre Spies’ performance this past weekend against the Blues, Heyneke Meyer will have taken note and may even be having a wry grin on his face. Spies’ performances over the past few years were short of satisfactory, and along with his hand injury last year, allowed for Duane Vermeulen to step up and take his place in the Springbok camp.
Many viewers will regard Spies as the better player, but it is often the non-flashy players who are doing the hard graft around the park and goes unnoticed because they do not rely on open space to ply their trade as does Pierre Spies. Read the rest of this entry →
The Springbok E-zine brings us weekly “Hotseat” Questions and Answers and this week if was the turn of John McFarland, the Springboks defensive coach, to field questions from the public. I’ve picked a few answers from him which I think are interesting, confusing and indicative of the current mindset in the Bok Camp.
Forget about the Rugby Championship. By the Springboks not getting the full 10 points….or even just the 8 for that matter, against Argentina, and the All Blacks demolishing the Aussies, New Zealand has all but engraved their names on the inaugural Rugby Championship cup.
The thought came up when I was reading an 
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