SA Rugby's director of rugby, Rassie Erasmus, has warned that Scotland should not be underestimated as the Springboks plot to defend their World Cup title in France later this year. | Sport24news
The Boks will feature in Pool B alongside the Scots, Ireland, Tonga and Romania.
The Boks will open their World Cup campaign against Scotland in Marseille on 10 September. They also play Romania in Bordeaux on 17 September and Tonga in Marseille on 1 October. "But, we face Scotland in the first match. If we beat Scotland, [then] we've got a little more breathing space in the rest of the pool," Erasmus told reporters at SARU House in Cape Town on Thursday.
But Erasmus said he wanted to avoid a similar scenario and added that beating Scotland would take some pressure off heading into the Ireland game.
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