RUGBY NEWS - Springbok coach Allister Coetzee has been trying to convince everyone who would listen that the horror show in Albany has been buried and is a thing of the past.
So much so that he believes how the Boks respond this weekend in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship match against Australia will be what defines the team, and not the 57-0 lashing they took a few weeks back in New Zealand.
The shockwaves from that game can still be felt in and around the camp. The Boks know only they can rectify the damage that one 80-minute spell did to their turnaround strategy.
Coetzee and his co-coaches have been making all the right noises this week about how they have moved on and that the defeat doesn’t define them. But they will know the danger of this game against the Wallabies, and the fact that a match they traditionally tend to win with Australia’s poor record in South Africa is more now an expectation.
