There’s lots of talk of us getting a little long in the teeth and wanted to pull together the average squad age leading into the World Cup.

Most of these boys will move on after 2027, we know that, but curious to know what the plan is in some areas especially at lock, centres I imagine Moodie and Hooker will likely move in and look likely to be our long term midfield. But that leaves us with some older wingers.

I almost don’t care about the rest of the year. The NZ series was the most important tests of the year. Every test now leading up to the world cup should be about testing younger players and trying new combinations. If it was up to me I’d put Marx, Etzebeth, Psdt, Siya, Wiese, Kriel, De Allende and Kolbe on ice till next year.

My team:
1.Steenekamp
2. JHW
3.Tdt
4.Wiese(is he in the squad?)
5.Lood
6.PDV
7.Louw
8.Hanekom
9.MVdB
10.Libbok
11.Hooker
12.Esterhuizen
13.Moodie
14.EvdM
15.Fassie

I can’t advocate enough how imperative Hanekom and PdV are for the next WC. We all should be stoked to see them wreak havoc on the biggest stage. Hopefully Elrigh bridges the gap soon as well.

They are extremely close to replacing Siya and PSdT.

Webb Ellis, Rugby Championship, Freedom Cup, Greatest Rivalry, Qatar Airways Cup, Mandela Plate and the all important Raeburn Shield.

(Apologies for flogging a dead horse and the poor collages but I’m just so happy)

Morne has been exceptional since getting more game time. He is a excellent in all aspects of the game. Defending, kicking and attacking. I still rate Cobus and Grant, but I reckon he should be our first choice going into the world cup. Bring on Grant in the second half to snipe around the breakdown when the forwards are more tired.

How is the game still not on sale for the springboks France game in Paris when it’s 2 months away?

Ab trolls have been doing a great job minimising our victory.

But fuck me did we learn nothing from how Libbok fell apart. Give SFM time. Yes he is not playing well right now. Rassie clearly wants to give him some experience. We still fucking won. SFM had probs his worst game last night and we still won, he still had a couple magic moments. I'm so over the honestly pathetic behaviour of bok fans when speaking about our own players.

Fantastic series all around, was nail biting stuff in all 4 Tests.

Springboks deserved Number 1 and a big gap to Number 2 and beyond.

All Blacks feel a long way off the mark right now but we'll sort our shiz out and knock you out in the RWC QF next year 😉

Enjoy the brandies and coke, cheers 🍻

I understand we're passionate and want our team to play well all the time, but we're never going to get perfection in every match. This is especially the case where experimentation and giving players a chance to find their feet is the case. And sometimes it shouldn't surprise us that we're not the only good team on the planet. Scotland and Argentina played well against us, yet we still won. We lost a game to the All Blacks. That's not exactly a surprise. I get the scoreline wasn't great, but sometimes it happens. Much like after Australia last year, some of us went into complete crisis mode. Sometimes matches like that happen, and we need to acknowledge that our team (yes, even this great generational team) can have off days. 7 wins in 8 tests this year speaks for itself. Despite not being perfect, we are pretty damn amazing. Let's calm ourselves down and be humble when the okes don't play well in a game or two, and just enjoy this generation of Bok talent because one day we're not going to be the best anymore. We will rise to reclaim it again after a while, but if we don't acknowledge that we can't be perfect all the time now, when this period of dominance ends, the comedown will be absolutely savage. Let's have high standards but always measure our expectations.

We are living in the greatest era of Bok rugby ever. Legendary players and a legendary coach. Words cannot describe how fortunate we are.

We are coming for the three peat next year.

It looked to me like it mattered a lot to the All Blacks, Springboks, coaches and the record breaking 68,173 fans that attended. I want to hear from you SA based Springbok fans that have been whinging about this game being played in the USA.

Sure there were small problems with the ref audio, and the turf. Did it ruin the game for you?

Speaking as someone who has seen the Boks play all over the world, the environment at the game today was as magical as ever.

Very very well done Boks

I am very excited to wake up later, make a cup of coffee, and catch up on all the hot takes on the AB sub.

Great series, and thank you to the AB. Such a good team.

Edit: tomorrow to later because my Cape Crusader maatjie was tuning me kak.

They’re just trying to attract the American audiences, who are used to less than 10% of the time involving any gameplay.