Springbok assistant coach Franco Smith is keeping his cards close to the chest on the lineup to face Argentina in Nelson Mandela Bay on Saturday. There has been speculation that 20-year-old Curwin Bosch might be on the bench as an understudy to Elton Jantjies at flyhalf while Handré Pollard is recovering from injury. Smith was not giving anything away when pressed on who Jantjies’s understudy would be for the opening game in the Rugby Championship. "We will have to wait for the team announcement to make sure that nobody is disappointed or too excited‚" Smith said. "Everybody has trained well and we have got a lot of plans. We are working hard to better the skills sets of every player and also in the flyhalf role. "Both Handré Pollard and Curwin Bosch really stepped up this week. "I am impressed with the way they have adapted to the detail work. "In a Test match it is slightly different‚ because the margin for error is much less. "Both of them are new to the system. They adapted nice...
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