High praise for Blitzboks’ character in Dubai

The impressive JC Pretorius scored the winning try for the Springbok Sevens to break the Australian resilience and hand SA back-to-back Dubai tournament victories at their favourite desert hunting ground. They also achieved a rare feat of three Dubai tournament wins in a row.“It was a week full of challenges, dealing with the injuries of Muller du Plessis and Ryan Oosthuizen,” said Powell.

The injuries meant the Blitzboks only had 11 fit players, so some of the coaching staff had to jump in to make it two squads of seven players at training. “Credit must go the boys for staying focus and doing what needed to be done, because you never know what might happen with regards to the next tournaments,” said Powell.

South Africa owns World Rugby. Nothing will change in this regard. Any rugby-playing country thinking we will relinquish our grasp of both formats of Rugby must simply work twice as hard or as smart as we play rugby. It is an open challenge.

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