Morgan Bolton morgan.bolton@inl.co.za “Firstly, my yellow card,” said Faf de Klerk defiantly, “I honestly don’t think it was a yellow card. I clearly played the guy’s arm and not the ball, so I am not really sure about that one.”
The livewire scrumhalf made his unapologetic statement, regarding his sin-binning against Australia this past weekend, yesterday during the Springbok team announcement. Yet, regardless of his conviction, there can be no denying that the world champions have been making some uncharacteristic mistakes, and paying the price for it.
Even so, De Klerk maintained that the errors that have crept into the Bok gameplan in recent weeks is due to the team losing a measure of control in their approach, and maybe losing sight of what has made them so successful in…