While Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus is expected to start showing his hand for the 2027 Rugby World Cup during the next Incoming Tour schedule in July and is likely to give more starting roles to younger and more inexperienced Boks, there is still a Holy Grail to be claimed in the 2025 international season.
For the team that has seemingly won everything, including back-to-back World Cups, and a British and Irish Lions tour, Erasmus’s core Boks have a new challenge waiting in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship next season when they can break the longest winning streak of any international side at a rugby ground.
But what was interesting was the decision to schedule the much-anticipated first test between the two sides at Eden Park - where the All Blacks hold that same record. And most of their meetings in New Zealand have been in Wellington, where the second test against the All Blacks has been played. The two tests against the Boks also precede the first major tour between the two sides in 2026, which is set to be an epic event.
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