Japan stun
Ireland to pull off another famous upsetAll the fixtures, tables and results from JapanEmail Lee or tweet him with your thoughts on the game 1.08pm BST
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South Africa run away with it in nine-try thrashing of Namibia 1.07pm BST
“Hi Lee,” says Pieter de Beer, “The Boks’ consecutive handling errors and poor execution are worrying. This (hopefully) cannot be explained as being due to a game used as ‘a practice’. A truly professional team never slacken their levels of performance but rather use the easier games to sharpen their skills, positional play, game plan execution and confidence levels.”
It’s useful in any situation like this to play the “what the All Blacks have done to this team?” game, and I reckon they would’ve hit thee figures. Ultimately does thi really matter? Perhaps not, but the way South Africa looked to lack fluency in the first game and now this one is a worry.