Junior Boks change it up for Italy
Coach Bafana Nhleko named five uncapped players in the Juniors Boks starting team to face Italy in Paarl on Thursday in SA’s second pool match of the World Rugby U20 Championship.
Coach Bafana Nhleko named five uncapped players in the Juniors Boks starting team to face Italy in Paarl on Thursday in SA’s second pool match of the World Rugby U20 Championship.
A match-winner for the Junior Springboks in the U20 Championship opener against Georgia, flyhalf Jean Smith is writing a new chapter in his family’s rich rugby history.
Bafana Nhleko is taking confidence from a disappointed Junior Springboks changeroom following the hard-fought opening World U20 Championship win over Georgia on Saturday.
Head coach Bafana Nhleko says the Junior Springboks won’t have the burden of 2012’s U20 World Championship win on their shoulders when they start their campaign in Stellenbosch on Saturday.
On 22 June 2012, the Junior Springboks defeated New Zealand at Newlands to win the World U20 Championship on home soil.
After two months of preparing in Stellenbosch, the Junior Springboks received a reality check that they were in tournament week when they arrived at the team hotel for the World U20 Championship.
Handre Pollard has reflected fondly on his experience in South Africa’s successful 2012 U20 World Championship campaign, when the Junior Springboks won the tournament on home soil.
On this day in 2018, Tyrone Green scored twice to help the Junior Springboks win a 70-point thriller against New Zealand and take third place in the World U20 Championship.
Inspired by Damian Willemse and Herschel Jantjies, promising Junior Springboks scrumhalf Imad Khan is eager to make a run at winning the U20 World Championship. DYLAN JACK reports.
SA Rugby has confirmed that the Junior Springboks will be without DHL Stormers star Suleiman Hartzenberg for the U20 World Championship due to injury.