Springboks hooker Joseph Dweba is a monster of a man and he will be right at home against the physical force of the Pumas, writes Oliver...
Franco Mostert is a physical and positional enigma, and he was the most valuable player to the Springboks in a brutal three-Test series, where the physicality...
Jacques Nienaber made a huge call to pull his vice captain Handre Pollard off on 65 minutes, with the game at 13 all. At the beginning...
Damian De Allende is currently the best inside centre playing Test rugby, and the fact that he managed to return to rugby in time for the...
In the author’s note from The Chosen 23, Mark Keohane explains how the idea was born. *In a special offer, the first 500 people to order...
While social media has appeared cynical of the Springboks’ scrum-half selection for Saturday’s series decider against the British & Irish Lions, both Cobus Reinach and Herschel...
With the exception of the injury-enforced absence of Pieter-Steph Du Toit and Faf De Klerk, the Springbok 23 that will face the Lions in the series...
Rassie Erasmus was gracious in defeat in the aftermath of the Springboks’ controversial loss to the British & Irish Lions in the opening Test of the...
Damian Willemse’s cameo appearances as a super-sub will be decisive in a Springboks series win against the British & Irish Lions, with the Springbok coaching staff...
This was the SA ‘A’ the Lions expected to trounce in Cape Town and this SA ‘A’ was nothing compared to the Springboks who played as...
Jasper Wiese did enough in his second international outing, as South Africa ‘A’ downed the British & Irish Lions 17-13, to show that he is the...
A couple of months ago I wrote a piece entitled “Why we go to war with Eben Etzebeth”. Every notion was affirmed over an unrelenting 80-minute...
The British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa in 2021 is unique in that the battle is not just between the hosts and the touring...
Scottish flanker Hamish Watson has the motor and mongrel to be a game changer for the British & Irish Lions come the three tests against the...
Legendary former Welsh and British & Irish Lions centre Scott Gibbs believes the selection of Kwagga Smith at number 8 for the Springboks first warmup test...
It is magnificent and so appropriate that Frans Steyn will start in the Springboks first test since the Rugby World Cup final. He has started only...