Antoine Du Pont cleared to return to practice ahead of France/ Springboks clash.
France says it will be up to their captain Antoine Du Pont to have the final say on whether he will face the Springboks in the quarterfinals of the Rugby World Cup in Paris on Sunday evening. The mercurial scrum half has been medically cleared to return to practice after a cheekbone fracture and that gives this feisty clash an extra dimension and adds to the emotion.
“We can expect that playing here against the home team, it is going to be a massive atmosphere I think we had a dry run of that last year in Marseille. It was an absolutely fantastic atmosphere, I think the players also experienced the same type of environment in 2019 against Japan so something that a lot of these players are used to,” says Davids.
“It is great for France to have him back I think he is a great asset for them, for me personally it is always good to play against one of the best in the world but we are preparing to play against France and not just against him although he is a very dangerous player and we know where the threats lie in that. We are just basically focusing on playing against France and the challenges that that brings along with it,” says De Klerk.
“It’s actually small details or really basic things that we have all started being sharper on and just spend more time working on so even as a pack of forwards we are working on little details like our passing skills and catching skills you know stuff that forwards probably don’t work on all that much,” says Snyman.
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