LIST: Springbok bad boys down the years — who and where are they?

Let's take a look at the star Springbok players whose careers were heavily impacted by their naughty streak.

Springboks James Small, Joost van der Westhuizen and Elton Jantjies. Images: Backpage Pix, Gallo, Instagram.

Later that same year, he prematurely lost his place in the squad for having an extra-mural affair with the the Springboks’ dietician. That led to a breakdown in his marriage with wife Iva Ristic, who fled the country with the couple’s three sons to Turkey. It was at this point, that he also lost his lucrative contract with a Japanese rugby club, who no longer wanted to be associated with him.

Springbok flyhalf Elton Jantjies has been handed what is effectively a career-ending ban after testing positive for a banned substance.James Terrence Smal died of cardiac arrest at The Harem strip club in Bedfordview in Johannesburg and it that doesn’t tell you that he was the ultimate Springbok bad boy, nothing will.

Small was a foul-mouthed player who never backed down from a fight, which made it difficult to distinguish if he was driven by passion or thuggery. And for his efforts, he will down down in the annals of history as the first Springbok since readmission to get red-carded in a Test match for dissent against Australia in 1993.

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