Our magical Springbok moments from the Rugby World Cup 2019 final
1. Asked to pick my five magical moments from Saturday’s World Cup final, I could easily say the five scrum penalties South Africa forced in the 17th, 24th, 40th, 44th and 49th minutes. I’ll have to confine my awe at the Springboks’ scrum dominance to it being one of my five magical moments. They absolutely destroyed England in the scrum.
4. The Boks defence, collectively, and player for player, was immense. England just couldn’t find a way through. England, a week earlier against the All Blacks, made 401 metres on attack and six clean linebreaks. They made an average of 2.8 metres on each attack. Against the Boks they could only make 201 metres, two clean line breaks and make 1.6 metres on attack. England were smashed in the collisions.
2. Early on, Handre Pollard had a golden opportunity to kick the Boks into a 3-0 lead after his forwards had earned a scrum penalty. But he steered the kick wide of the right upright and the look on coach Rassie Erasmus’ face said it all. Squandered points in a final can cost you the game... And there was the worry that Pollard’s confidence would take a knock.
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