Now there are only 11 days to go before the world cup, and the Springboks have completed all the preliminaries. There are no more warm up games, the next will be the real thing. 4 years of build up by Jake White comes down to 7 games (hopefully!)
The Boks completed their preparation today with a 27-3 victory over the Scots. After the early exchanges of a penalty apiece, a bit of brilliance from Bryan Habana led to a 3 try blitz within the space of 6 minutes.
South Africa 27: Tries by Bryan Habana, Jaque Fourie and Fourie du Preez
Percy Montgomery kicked three conversions and two penalties
Scotland 3: Chris Paterson kicked a penalty
The warm up games so far have produced the results we would expect but the margins have not been surprising. The favoured teams have not won convincingly. Are teams holding back or we will see a much more even world cup than we have in the past. I suspect the quarter finalists may produce a surprise or two, but the semis will be France, Australia, NZ and the Boks.
