GAVIN RICH: Boks must stay in touch with rivals while not playing international rugby

The decision to withdraw the Springboks from the Rugby Championship was most emphatically the right one, but let’s not pretend it’s an ideal situation.

He said he and his teammates were nowhere near fit enough to play international rugby in just a couple of weeks. The best way to get match-fit was to play matches and that was why he was looking forward to the nine-match uninterrupted playing sequence faced by his team. But what if we’re still in the pandemic and crowds aren’t allowed into stadiums by the time the tour arrives next July? Without the banker, which was the expected windfall of the Lions series, I doubt the SA administrators would have allowed rugby sense to prevail.

Forget the 20-point difference between the teams at Eden Park, the Wallabies showed in both Test matches played on New Zealand soil that they will improve considerably under the coaching of former Chiefs mentor Dave Rennie. Although well beaten in the second game after the first one was drawn, the Wallabies still showed a hard edge they didn’t have before.

The players the Boks will face in the Lions series aren’t playing international rugby yet, but they will soon be. There is the end of the 2020 Six Nations and the entire 2021 Six Nations still to come, depending of course on what the coronavirus does, before the Lions fly to SA.

Who cares,SA rugby is dead just like cricket,wanna be woke,you gonna go broke,never bend the knee.

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