Gregor Townsend’s talented Scotland team face a huge challenge against South Africa in a pivotal Pool B clash at the Rugby World Cup
Scotland, who lean heavily on that club in personnel terms, need to be more resilient. They play great rugby at times that exemplifies the skills and attitude that their head coach, Gregor Townsend, showed as a player, while boasting outstanding individuals such as Duhan van der Merwe, the inspirational troubadour Finn Russell and flankers James Ritchie and Rory Darge.
“That brings challenges to our defence and opportunities for us to get the ball back. If we can play our game, a game we believe can threaten them in defence, but we must make sure that we bring our own power to the various contacts we get in the game, scrum, lineout maul, tackle and ruck clearance. Tight head prop Zander Fagerson has served his two-match ban and returns to the front row in one of four changes to the pack from the Georgian game; Pierre Schoeman, George Turner and Richie Gray are the others.
“Even further than that, if you look at Chasing the Sun after the last World Cup, we put it out there. I don’t think there’s people who don’t know how we operate inside the Springbok environment. Even locally we had the Inside the Boks series where we will go into depth as to how we manage our players, so we are as transparent as we can be.
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