Tupou Vaa'i is ready to put the lessons from his mentors into practice and stand his ground when the All Blacks tackle the Springboks on Saturday.
Tupou Vaa’i is ready to put the lessons from his mentors into practice and stand his ground when the All Blacks tackle the Springboks on Saturday.
The Springboks are currently sweating over the availability of centurion Eben Etzebeth, who has been labelled as doubtful as he has a leg niggle. Should Etzebeth be ruled out, one of Pieter-Steph du Toit, Ben-Jason Dixon or Nicolaas Janse van Rensburg would be given the No 4 jersey.
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