‘A young Willie le Roux’ – Springboks legends hail new ‘golden generation’ of South African players

Jean de Villiers believes that another ‘golden generation’ of players is coming through the SA Rugby structures.

Many of the back-to-back Rugby World Cup-winning Springboks are in the twilight stage of their careers, with Rassie Erasmus already starting to filter several of the older players out of the senior squad.

Faf de Klerk, Vincent Koch, Willie le Roux and Bongi Mbonambi are just four of the double World Cup winners who have not been included for the opening match of the Nations Championship against England.

Meanwhile, Erasmus has included three U20s stars who will miss the World Rugby Junior Championship