Why THIS is the defining game of Nienaber's Bok tenure
A bang or a whimper? There'd be cause for many Springbok supporters to swiftly suggest it’s the latter summation for Jacques Nienaber’s head-coaching legacy if the national team have crashed out of the World Cup at the quarter-final stage.
Defeat to host nation Les Bleus in the forbidding cauldron of their Stade de France main stronghold on Sunday would bring to a particularly juddering halt Nienaber's three-year stint - Covid prevented it being a more conventional, one-year-longer cycle - at the Bok tiller. Simultaneously, there’d also be substantial reason to suggest South Africa’s worst World Cup showing since the turbulent Rudolf Straeuli-steered regime of 2003 in Australia.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we're about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
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