Bok Befok: Yes please. Rassie’s rampant history makers destroyed the All Blacks in Wellington, New Zealand, scoring 36 unanswered second half points in a record-breaking 43-10 win, writes Mark Keohane.
The Boks scored six tries to one and had one disallowed, which should have been a penalty try to the Boks and a yellow card against the All Blacks.
My message to every South African supporter. Be safe, be cool and drink lots of Castle Lager on this Saturday and Sunday.
You witnessed something incredible from the back-to-back world champions in New Zealand.
The World Cup wins aside, this is Rassie Erasmus and Siya Kolisi’s finest hour as coach and captain of the Boks.
What a win.
Celebrate it.
HOW WE CALLED BOKS WIN
We have never done this kind of thing to the All Blacks in New Zealand. No team in the history of the game has.
Six tries!
Absolute dominance, at set piece, in the collisions, in the aerial battle, in the territorial game, and in the pleasure of having the ball.
The Boks, beaten 24-17 at Eden Park a week ago, relied on the tried and trusted in the pack and a range of brilliant individuals in the backs; players so talented but who had never lined up as a collective of the Boks.
The result was beyond comprehension.
The Boks pack, so intimidating when Wilco Louw was introduced on 41 minutes, scrummed the All Blacks from Wellington back to Auckland and than back down south to Invercargill.
The line out, marshalled by Ruan Nortje, was proper and the backs, led by Manie Libbok, were ‘PURE BOK’.
This was a blackout of note.
Erasmus did not roll the dice this week. He know what he was doing.
He picked a 23 with great balance but he introduced kids with greater hunger. Hooker was at the forefront of this hunger.
I wrote in the week that the Boks were good enough to feast on the All Blacks in Wellington. I believed, with conviction, this was a match 23 good enough to win in Wellington.
I was seriously annoyed they did not win at Eden Park a week ago. I felt this was a squad who would not get spooked by history, but they did in those opening 20 minutes and those 14 early All Blacks points were enough to keep in tact the most incredible record of 51 Tests unbeaten in 31 years at Eden Park.
The Sky Stadium in Wellington is not Eden Park. The All Blacks lose there, often.
On Saturday, they did not lose, they got pumped.
I always say ‘Boks by 10’.
Now is it is ‘Boks by 33’
ALL THE REACTION FROM BOKS AND ALL BLACKS
