Ireland v Springboks: Winners & losers as Irish ‘illegalities’ exposed, James Ryan’s dogshot and fortunate Feinberg-Mngomezulu

Following the Springboks’ 24-13 victory over Ireland in Dublin, here are our winners and losers.

Winners

The Springboks scrum

Sixteen scrum feeds, eight penalties won and two yellow cards issued to Irish front-rowers. Dominant doesn’t begin to describe just how effective the Springboks scrum was on Saturday evening in Dublin. It was a massacre.

Boan Venter and Thomas du Toit set the tone early on, shunting Tadhg Furlong and Andrew Porter backwards at the rate of knots, and Gerhard Steenekamp and Wilco Louw picked up from where they left off.

It was a jaw-dropping display, and times looked as if the