Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has explained why he's picked a 5-3 bench split between forwards and backs for Saturday's All Blacks Test.
The world champions have again changed things up for their Rugby Championship Test in Cape Town this weekend.
The Boks usually deploy their ‘Bomb Squad’ with a six-two split, while they have recently brought in the seven-one split to make their bench even more forward-heavy in some big games.for Saturday’s match with the five-three split, that will see Jaden Hendrikse, Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu and Lukhanyo Am as the back replacements on the bench.
“That will probably almost give you a six-two split as Pieter-Steph is just a guy who can play 80 over and over, but we’ll probably have to give him a rest sometime .”following last weekend’s 31-27 win, including bringing back the experienced Willie le Roux and Handre Pollard at fullback and flyhalf respectively, while Grant Williams will get a start at scrumhalf and Canan Moodie replaces the concussed Kurt-Lee Arendse on the wing.
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