GAVIN RICH: Draw against the All Blacks keeps the Boks humble
A second consecutive away win over the world champions would have upped the burden of World Cup expectation
29 July 2019 - 05:04
There was an obvious preferred result, but holding the All Blacks to a draw might have been the perfect outcome for the Springboks in Wellington.
Of course Duane Vermeulen’s Boks would have preferred to have won, but the pre-World Cup narrative that would have followed a second successive away win over the world champions would have increased the burden of expectation on them...
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