The Boks are not expecting leniency after the straight red card early in the encounter but they are hoping to better prepare the players for European refereeing.
Springbok management maintains that they intentionally chose a tough itinerary to see how their players react and adapt. “The past two games against Ireland and especially against France having lost players early in the game playing with 14 players for 65 minutes, I think you can’t fault the players effort so that’s a big box. We can tick in terms of how our players respond in playing against such tough teams and how they work hard in order to execute their plans,” says Davids.
“As players, we just have to adapt on the run, someday the refs see a certain action in a certain angle we see it in a different angle we are always going to have our differences but it is about how we adapt during that game,” says Moerat.
And RassieRugby will defend him. Not surprised he cried.