Boks surrendered Rugby Championship at Ellis Park
Mark Keohane says the Rugby Championship was neither lost in Durban nor won in Auckland on Saturday, the Springboks dropped the crown at Ellis Park in August.
Mark Keohane says the Rugby Championship was neither lost in Durban nor won in Auckland on Saturday, the Springboks dropped the crown at Ellis Park in August.
Frans Steyn nailed a trademark long-range penalty in the Boks’ win against Argentina on Saturday, but it was his charged down clearance by Juan Imhoff that possibly would’ve left more of an ‘impression’.
Rate the performance of Australian referee Damon Murphy in the Rugby Championship clash between the Springboks and Argentina at Kings Park.
Rassie Erasmus will be at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on 5 November for the Springboks’ first match of their end-of-year tour against Ireland.
A relieved Ian Foster was satisfied on Sunday after his All Blacks side took “a very different journey” to retain their Rugby Championship crown.
The Springboks fell short of winning the 2022 Rugby Championship but Jacques Nienaber was pleased to have developed depth at wing and flyhalf during the campaign.
Fijian Drua will stage six home matches and Moana Pasifika will play a first Super Rugby Pacific match on home soil, as organisers push for next year’s competition to make a bigger imprint in the Pacific Islands.
The Lions climbed out of an 11-point hole to upset Ospreys in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship match in Swansea on Saturday night.
The world champion Springboks missed out on winning the 2022 Rugby Championship despite beating Argentina by a comfortable margin in Durban on Saturday.
The DHL Stormers opened their Vodacom United Rugby Championship title defence in style with a comfortable bonus-point victory over 14-man Connacht in Stellenbosch on Saturday.