The Springboks will take on a Wallabies team including several unknown faces in the Rugby Championship opener.
Only a handful of Australian players will be familiar with the South Africans when they meet in Brisbane next Saturday.
Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus and several of his players are spot on when they say they don’t know as much about the Wallabies this season as has been the case in the past, following the announcement by Australia coach Joe Schmidt of his 36-man squad for the two Tests Down Under against the world champions.
In the past, when South Africa was still a part of the Super Rugby set-up, involving Australia and New Zealand, the players and coaches would get to see the countries’ best players in action against one another from February to May every year.having pulled out of Super Rugby three years ago, and joined the northern hemisphere and the United Rugby Championship, there is an unknown factor once again for the players and coaches, in both camps, going into this year’s Rugby Championship.
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