All Blacks demolition proof that ‘Tony-ball’ and Boks’ ‘skop, skiet and donner’ can live together

FIVE minutes before the end of the Springboks’ record-breaking win over the All Blacks, I told my wife I wasn’t going to bother hanging up the washing.

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As an All Black supporter from Namibia, she thought I was being smug about the ongoing trouncing in Wellington. But, as André Esterhuizen bumped Beauden Barrett into the stands for the Boks’ sixth try of the match, I explained to her that if I did hang up the washing, we’d be going to work on Monday smelling of boerewors and chops marinated in Six Gun Spice.

Yep, as a veteran braaier myself, I knew the country’s finest kameeldoring would fill the air with smoke when scrumhalf Cobus Reinach kicked the ball into touch to put the All Blacks out of their misery.

A part of me, however, wanted the Boks to have one more go — to try and put up SO against the New Zealanders. To do it for those Bok teams who lost 57-15 in Durban in 2016 and 57-0 in Albany in 2017. But that

New Zealander Tony Brown was appointed as the Boks’ new attack guru, after head coach Rassie Erasmus admitted that the next Rugby World Cup probably won’t be won with a good defence, accurate kicking, and a top set-piece alone.