Bok coach Jacques Nienaber was reluctant to heap too much praise on his proverbial makeshift players in the massive win over Romania, opining that they mixed 'good with bad'.
Despite admitting that the"experiments" he conducted in Sunday's 76-0 mauling of Romania in Bordeaux interspersed some"good with bad", Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber was clearly sufficiently satisfied enough with the showing of his two makeshift hookers, Deon Fourie and Marco van Staden, to confirm the call-up of Handre Pollard.
Pollard, South Africa's 2019 World Cup-winning pivot, officially replaces the talismanic Malcolm Marx, which leaves the side with only one specialist No 2 in Bongi Mbonambi.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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