It’s official: The champion Springboks dominate the Keo & Zels finest XV for the 2025 Citadel Lager Rugby Championship marketing campaign.
The choice standards was easy. Gamers needed to be bloody good, constant and put in WOW performances.
Attempt because the boys did, they may not discover a place for any Los Pumas participant, merely due to the standard of particular person they did choose.
The honourable mentions had been a lot. Pumas captain and hooker Julian Montoya misses out due to one Malcolm Marx. The Pumas flankers Kremer and Matero miss out due to giants like Pieter-Steph du Toit and Adri Savea.
Cam Roigard was good towards Australia at Eden Park, however solely performed in two of the six matches. Cobus Reinach was the star No 9, huge within the largest moments and when the Boks wanted him to take cost.
We appeared for affect, for brilliance and for the strongest of endings to essentially the most compelling Rugby Championship title within the historical past of the competitors.
The Boks gained the title, on factors differential, which was the primary time the competitors had ever been determined by factors differential.
That factors differential was a mixture of the 43-10 win towards the All Blacks in Wellington and the Boks’ 67-30 win towards the Pumas in Durban, which is why Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu’s shares are so excessive. He was the differentiator in Durban, with a Springboks particular person report 37 factors, and he ensured that the Boks solely wanted 4 league factors for a win within the closing match to win the title, and never a try-scoring bonus level win.
The Boks and All Blacks each gained 4 from six matches and completed with 19 league factors. Australia had been third and Argentina fourth. They each gained two Exams, however had been in a profitable place on 4 events from six.
The Boks dominated the workforce, particularly up entrance, with the All Blacks the following finest and the Wallabies making a world-class contribution.
Keo and Zels’ favorite rugby podcast is the ‘Aftermatch’ with former All Blacks flyhalf Stephen Donald aka Beaver and New Zealand Sky Sports activities presenter Kirstie Stanway-Thorne.
We’ve included Beaver’s Citadel Rugby Championship XV and be aware that he desires to do a stay Podcast from Caprice in Camps Bay throughout subsequent yr’s All Blacks Nice Rivalry Tour of South Africa.
We’ll ensure it occurs, together with Keo & Zels.
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*New Zealand’s blindside flanker wears six and the open facet seven. In South Africa, the blindside flanker wears 7, which is why Keo & Zels have Pieter-Steph du Toit at No 7 and Beaver has the world’s finest participant within the No 6 jersey.
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