Springbok Women’s coach reflects on defeat to Canada

Springbok Women’s performance coach Swys de Bruin feels had they converted the breaks they created in the defeat against Canada, it could have been a different story.

- ROWAN CALLAGHAN

The South Africans were left to rue missed opportunities as they succumbed 33-5 to the world’s No 2 team in the second Test at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha on Saturday afternoon. But with 15 minutes to go in the match, De Bruin felt the Springbok Women were still in the contest.

“At 19-5 and we get three line breaks, scoring chances, with 15 minutes to go I thought, ‘okay, they're number two and we're number 12, we've closed the gap’,” he said at the post-match media conference. “I mustn’t let the fact that they scored those two tries at the and pull the wool over my eyes. We had so many line breaks against a top side like that.