AllOutRugby

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A RWC record 70 103 spectators attended Saturday's final between the Boks and England at Yokohama International Stadium

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A record 54.8 million people watched the Japan v Scotland game on TV. The Japan team were also involved in all 5 of the biggest ever television audiences

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Siya Kolisi reveals what a brutally honest Rassie Erasmus said to the Boks when he arrived on the scene - https://t.co/uKtIfobM3s

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It's been 10 years since South Africa won any of the top 3 World Rugby awards, but they made up for that in style, taking all three this year! https://t.co/1VQuEbhUKG

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As good now as it was when @dannicholl first penned this column on Siya Kolisi, the family man. Deserves all credit that comes his way! https://t.co/4EqKyqVa8L

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@Schoeman1964 It's now emerging that he is injured (calf), but of course World Rugby chose not to mention that

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Jaco Peyper is back - as an AR, but Nigel Owens is MIA for the big RWC weekend ... https://t.co/7LuxhcFLXS

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The 8th edition of the Sevens World Cup will be hosted on African soil for the very first time ... September 2022, at the Cape Town stadium - https://t.co/esNxeHr2Ac

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SA announced as the host of the Sevens World Cup in 2022. CT Stadium will host the event in September

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From 2 days to 3 days. From men only to including the women. And now extra seating created in the stadium for the @CapeTown7s in December - https://t.co/FMgbyVIwi1

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Flitting from province to province earning a pay cheque was what many SA players deemed to be professional. Rassie has changed that - https://t.co/EtuBDbyD4z

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Average of 30 caps per Bok backline player, while the forwards boast an average of 58 caps. The bench come in at 38. The average age of the starting fifteen is 28.

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Total of 677 test caps amongst the Springbok starting line-up. 213 in the backline with 464 caps among the forwards. On the bench there are a further 301 caps!

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Boks have played Wales twice at Rugby World Cups: In 2011 South Africa won the Pool match in Wellington 17-16. In 2015 SA won the quarter-final at Twickenham 23-19. Tighter than a drum! Same again on Sunday?

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Nkosi in for the injured Kolbe as Rassie sticks with 6/2 split on the bench for the semi final against Wales on Sunday @ 11h00 - https://t.co/Nun8YU8rhe

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@thedeadballarea Still seems industrially harsh, though!!

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Did World Rugby suspend the players who seriously misbehaved in a bar/club at night? Nope, yet they did far, far worse than Peyper did ... https://t.co/QavYsV8OSU

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Rassie happy with Beast-Mode Boks - https://t.co/D6Gbo8PPlC

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Beast and Bongi hit the run on XV as coach Rassie goes for a 6/2 bench aimed at turning the Italians into Mozzarella in the first half - https://t.co/eBTcH1S21r

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RIP Chester Williams. You laid the path for so many. You will be missed - https://t.co/z57PYv4rfg