Weekend on social media

The SA Rugby magazine team rounds up what the rugby community shared on social media this past weekend.

Scary thought: Boks’ best is yet to come

While Siya Kolisi’s Springboks smashed England to win their third Rugby World Cup crown, they could be even better when the 2023 tournament comes around, writes JOHN GOLIATH.

Watch: Federer congratulates the Boks

Check out what tennis legend Roger Federer had to say to Siya Kolisi and the Springboks following their World Cup triumph.

Du Toit crowned king of 2019

Pieter-Steph du Toit had his excellent season recognised as he was named Player of the Year for 2019 at the World Rugby Awards in Tokyo on Sunday.

World champions to tour SA

The 2019 Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok squad are due to arrive back in South Africa on a number of flights from Japan over a two day period between 5 and 6 November.

‘It’s been an emotional 24 hours’

Former World Cup-winning captain Francois Pienaar has highlighted just what it means for the Springboks to have triumphed in Saturday’s final.

Mapimpi is Boks’ big success story

Makazole Mapimpi, the first South African to score a try in a World Cup final, is the Springboks’ most-improved player over the past two years, writes JON CARDINELLI in Tokyo.

Erasmus: I was close to resigning

Rassie Erasmus says he would have stepped down as Springbok coach if the team did not beat the All Blacks in Wellington in 2018.

Three key points from the World Cup final

SA Rugby magazine identifies some of the good, the bad and the ugly to take away from the Boks’ World Cup final victory over England.

Jones: It wasn’t the outcome we expected

England head coach Eddie Jones, assistant coach Steve Borthwick and captain Owen Farrell speak to the media after the loss against the Boks in the World Cup final.