While Springbok fans may be salivating at the hope of a clean sweep during the team’s opening Castle Lager Rugby Championship games in Australia, it is worth a reminder that over the years - and even under the coaching duo of Rassie Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber - results have been mixed, and that wins down under are hardly ever guaranteed.
Back-to-back World Cup wins have shown the Boks to be the masters of tournament rugby, but in the Rugby Championship it has often been the opposite. The Boks have handily beaten Australia and Argentina in South Africa, and shared the spoils with New Zealand at times, but when it comes to playing away, their record is nowhere near as good.
Under Erasmus, the Boks have won once - at the re-opening of the Sydney Football Stadium in 2022, where a young winger named Canan Moodie jumped into the hearts of Bok fans by taking an up and under on debut and scoring a brilliant try on debut. After all, the Wallabies were in disarray under Eddie Jones last season, and have started to regroup under Joe Schmidt and work their way towards hosting both the British and Irish Lions next year and the Rugby World Cup in 2027.
And the Wallabies, under Schmidt, will use every trick in the book to disrupt the Boks’ momentum, and their ability to try and dominate the game. That has always been something that has evaded them, and is a big focus for the current coaching team.
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