News Headlines

• Embrose Papier might be heading to Sale Sharks Post 2026/27 URC season as his contract will be up
• Richie Mounga joins the Allblacks
• Ackerman believes the Springboks will be well prepared for the Allblacks
• Allblacks sweating on McKenzie
• USA XV beat Argentina XV 25 - 24
• Nonu Doing the Haka against the Allblacks (how good)
• Wallabies romp Eddie Jones Japan 56-17 win over Japan. Taniela Tupou looking good under Kiss. Much better second half performance by the Wallabies. If you remember they lost against Ireland and France after a good first half. kiss will now prepare for Argentina which will be a good challenge for Australia
• The #BokWomen were made to work very hard to secure a series victory in Fiji, with Maria Tshiremba scoring a hat-trick on debut
• Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx, could be heading to the Bulls

Build Up:

• Allblacks s have played 3 and won 3 - what can they take away from this?
• Regarding officials - maybe let’s get this out the way, what do we want to see? Have we seen a good performance in the past three games? Because we have the same guys refereeing the Tests.
• Have they (Allblacks) been tested?
• Is it genuine to call Allblacks favourites? Yes-why? No-why?
• Depth conversation, why didn’t Springboks release players for the midweek games? (I remember Sonny Bill Williams & Nonu available for the Blues against the Lions in 2017)
• Areas of focus for Springboks based on what we’ve seen this year? - General play, Defense, set piece, attack
• Areas of focus for the Allblacks, based on what we’ve seen this year? - General play, Defense, set-piece: they’ve gave Neethling Fouche, Vincent Koch etc , ABs must work on their blind side defense at scrum time. attack
• First Test: starting 23 Boks & ABs