The Springboks 2-1 home series triumph against the All Blacks has drawn a remarkably consistent verdict from New Zealand’s leading rugby voices: South Africa are the benchmark and their power game is unlike anything else in Test rugby.
And, when the pressure was greatest, the world champions imposed themselves on the All Blacks.
The Springboks have won the South African leg of Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry 2-1 and the message from New Zealand is not that the All Blacks were disgraced, exposed or hopeless.
It is that the Boks were better.
And, more significantly, that the Springboks remain the team every
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