They will have the backing of a raucous sellout crowd of 50,000 in the Buenos Aires suburb and coach Hansen is not taking them lightly. The South Africa captain said yesterday that upsetting New Zealand had seen the Springboks set a new standard they must keep up when they host Australia at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. “I find that sometimes we, as South Africans, wait until our backs are against the wall until we respond. We should be pitching up like that every single week.”The Boks’ win in Wellington came after disappointing losses in Argentina and Australia. “We know as players that we have set a standard and we have to maintain that from here on in.

Source: Irish Examiner September 29, 2018 03:56 UTC