There is no mystery to what will unfold at Wembley. South Africa arrive with clarity, cohesion, and a forward pack that understands its own gravity, and, with Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu at the helm, they’re fast creating a side that might be termed Rassie 3.0 – more fluent, more ambitious and brutally fast.
Japan, under Eddie Jones, will bring movement, deception, and a memory; Brighton, 2015. But this is not a contest between nostalgia and power – more so it is a collision between a side that knows exactly who it is and a side still searching for the rhythm that once made
