The backlash in the international rugby media this week against the Springboks’ apparently controversial decision to employ an unconventional 7-1 bench split in last week’s 35-7 thumping of the All Blacks at Twickenham appears fierce, but don’t misinterpret it as anti-South African sentiment.
In fact, former World Cup-winning Bok mentor and current Bulls director of rugby, Jake White, believes the noisy discourse about Jacques Nienaber’s troops going into next week’s showpiece in France is simply “the nature of the beast”.
Speaking during a panel discussion at News24’s
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