Following the announcement of the Springboks squad for the November Nations Championship, here are our five takeaways from Rassie Erasmus’ selections.

Top line: Age is just a number

We have seen both extremes of this from Erasmus this year. He rang up Deon Fourie before Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry Test series against the All Blacks, and he became the oldest player to represent the Springboks in the second match versus New Zealand – a record he broke in the next two games.

Fourie’s appearance in the clash in Baltimore was just 13 days before his 40th birthday, with the head coach reiterating

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