The Springboks are in action in two weeks from now when they open their 2024 season and the next World Cup cycle by playing Wales at Twickenham.
Evan Roos won’t want to be playing in that game. His focus is on getting the DHL Stormers as far as they can in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship, and the London game clashes with the URC final.
“There is always room to improve but it has been great playing all three positions as it broadens my expertise. No 6 and No 8 are quite similar, there’s not too much difference and I am able to play the same kind of role there, but blindside flank is very different,” he says. “It is going to be a tough game, we know that. Franco is a good coach and he has been doing good things there. They like to get the ball to do the work, so we will be tested,” he says.
Roos certainly has momentum with him. The impressive solo try he scored against the Emirates Lions advertised the fact that Roos, although having developed in so many other areas since then, still has the pace that made him such a stand-out player when just out of school and he remains a really exciting player when carrying the ball.
“When I started playing I was young and wanted to prove myself. I was only 21. But I have spoken to some of the senior players and the coaches and have come to the realisation that you don’t intimidate someone by pushing them around,” he explains. “The way Evan is playing, and in particular the way he is behaving on the field, with his discipline despite sometimes quite intense provocation, has been superb. I have been thrilled with him at No 6,” said Dobson about a selection that he intends to continue into a third successive game at the Scotstoun.
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