Rassie Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber have revealed that Siya Kolisi has been given as much time as needed to recover from knee surgery and lead the Springboks again.
Rassie Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber have revealed that Siya Kolisi has been given “as much time as possible” to recover from knee surgery and lead the Springboks again.
He is now in a race against time to prove his fitness in order to help South Africa defend the Webb Ellis Cup in less than four months’ time. The Boks will launch their World Cup defence on Sunday, 10 September, against Scotland in Marseille, after warm-up Tests against Argentina, Wales and New Zealand, and speaking in a media conference on Thursday, Erasmus and Nienaber addressed the availability and selection of Kolisi.
“Then we played him in an Argentina Test match off the bench, and his first start was against Japan, in Japan, for that warm-up game for the Rugby World Cup.
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