Boks prepare for set piece and war
So the scrum is uppermost for the visitors — who will meet the men in white again at Twickenham on Saturday
London — About 50 minutes after the scheduled time a door opened in a subterranean room in a London hotel on Tuesday‚ and whatever light had hung low in the place was rudely shoved out of the way by two enormous sets of shoulders. Into the suddenly charged space hulked Duane Vermeulen and Malcolm Marx‚ and with them came apologies. “So sorry we’re late and thank you for your patience‚” the Springbok media manager said. “Here they are‚ fresh from the training ground; you can smell the grass and the sweat on them,” he said. None of the reporters present were close enough to hazard an investigative sniff‚ but one was told later that “a couple of things” had delayed the media conference. The biggest of those things‚ apparently‚ was a scrumming session that grew a mind of its own as it rumbled on for longer than planned. And when a Bok pack gets a bee in its jockstrap about the how‚ what and why they want to do things‚ civilians such as media managers had best get the hell out of the way...
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