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What should we be coaching the Boks of tomorrow?

It is tragic that in the year we celebrate a century of Springbok rugby our beloved Boks reached a low point last Saturday with a historic loss to Australia. We appear to be in another of our now almost biannual downward spirals and an age-old debate has resurfaced. Various stakeholders, most notably Joel Stransky in the June edition of Rugby World South Africa, are getting on the bandwagon and claiming that the problem starts at schools, the boy FULL STORY >>

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