All Blacks deliver merciless defeat to Springboks
The Boks gave their best but, much like a lover you can no longer please, it was nowhere near good enough
IF the Springboks didn’t know how atrocious they were, the All Blacks served them a timely reminder when they got their biggest win over South Africa at Kings Park on Saturday.It was ugly. New Zealand were merciless. The daggers kept coming until the Bok fans went past their pain threshold.There are Springbok players who might never taste a win over the All Blacks in their careers, if things remain as they are for the respective teams. The likelihood is that the Kiwis will go on to beat the record of 17 straight wins, which they matched in Durban on Saturday.A place in the annals of history as one of the most mediocre Springbok teams awaits Allister Coetzee’s men. The only thing missing now is a Kamp Staldraad-type scandal, otherwise the Boks look like Rudolf Straeuli’s team reincarnated.The scary thing is that the Boks actually gave their best but, much like a lover you can no longer please, it was nowhere near good enough. Many of the people that packed Kings Parks would have been...
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