Rugby World Cup 2015: South Africa’s global record

Form: Victories over Japan, the United States and Canada in the Pacific Nations Cup this summer will have given Tonga confidence ahead of the World Cup but defeats to Fiji, as well as Scotland in November past year, suggest they are still outsiders to reach the knock-out stages.

Branded as still too white, South Africa’s Rugby World Cup squad was given a public farewell by flag-waving fans on Friday, an attempt to drum up support for a team that has won the showpiece twice but hasn’t won over many of its countrymen. He can be injured for long periods then he comes out and wins world championships and Olympics. “We’re going to stay low when we tackle, we’re going to keep reloading and push the South African players all the way to the end to a point where they become scared of us”.

“The Rugby Championship was a learning curve for us and we’ve worked on and corrected a number of things from what we learned”. Before Namibia gained independence in 1990, the team, as South West Africa, played in South Africa’s domestic club competition, the Currie Cup. “I’m extremely confident that the Japanese will come up with a contingency that will satisfy our requirements but Rugby World Cups are so important for World Rugby that we have to be absolutely sure of the certainty of our revenue streams flowing from that problem that we’ve had with the national stadium leaving”.

“In 2007 I was still young and there was a lot of excitement”.

“Maybe the people will talk about the JP Pietersen of 2015 afterwards and not the JP of 2007 anymore. If you are in good shape you get up quicker, you feel better, you are confident”, McFarland said. We’ve trained hard…so I’m feeling really good.

Japan lock Justin Ives has declared himself fit for the fearless Blossoms’ Rugby World Cup opener against South Africa on Saturday.

“Our focus is just to win this Test match and we’re looking forward to the challenge”, said Loubscher.

“I still remember the tears and the support I’ve had since then from guys like Tomo (Luke Thompson) and Shota (Horie), and to have another go, to finally make it here is just unbelievable”.