Eddie Jones coined the term 'Culturally Appropriate Rugby'. Learn more about how the Springboks evolved from 'power-driven pattern' to one of creativity and fun.
Learning to fly: Springbok wings Cheslin Kolbe and Kurt-Lee Arendse . Photos: David Ramos/Getty Images & Lionel Hahn/Getty Images
No one exemplifies the “New Boks” more than fly-half Manie Libbok, he of the slick hands and ability to kick off either foot. Libbok weighs 76kg in those green-stockinged feet. The strategy worked again for the Boks’ second. Cameron Woki, the French lock, was helping his defenders out this time, but he could only juggle the kick before inadvertently knocking it into Damian de Allende’s waiting hands.
The Boks will be keeping an eye on broken-field opportunities come their Saturday night semifinal against England but the coaching staff are too canny to leave it at that. Faf de Klerk, on as a second-half substitute, passed the ball to Du Toit when he wasn’t looking; Du Toit and RG Snyman got in each other’s way; De Klerk tried to milk a penalty from referee Ben O’Keefe by intentionally passing the ball at a French forward lying on the wrong side of a ruck. Willie le Roux, another second-half substitute, knocked on. The match itself was pure theatre but this was pure vaudeville.
There is little poetry with England, and, yes, they are Roundheads rather than Cavaliers, but they do have a kind of throttling power. And they are — few have deemed this worthy of comment — the only side in the semis not to have lost, the All Blacks having lost to France, the Boks to Ireland and Argentina to George Ford’s boot.
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