Bruce Miller

Dad of two 18-year-old boys. Entrepreneur, sailing my yacht, dive instructor, wannabe surfer & part-time DJ. Golf keeps me humble. 📸

[Bruce Miller @gnasher2]

@bensmithrugby “Congrats on winning Excel clown. We’ll take the rugby series. 2–1. 😂🇿🇦”

[Inside Rugby With Mark @insiderugbymark]

Boksocology - The Verdict.

As a Kiwi rugby fan who has watched South African rugby over the course of the past fifty five years I have really enjoyed how the game in South Africa has evolved.

Now back to back World Champions, and a nation, through a lot of its youth, has embraced the game in a very special way, and it shares these many things with the world.

Yesterday's encounter against "my team" at Ellis Park was very special for many reasons. Gone are the days of Jean De Villers and Francois Pienaar, of Richie McCaw and Dan Carter.

Now it's time for the Sasha Feinberg Mngomezulu's, the Damian Willemse's , the Ruben Love's and Cam Roigards.

The new era has well and truly arrived, and while there are many disappointed South African fans around today please hear me out.

Don't panic.

This was merely game one in a four test match series. Never question Rassie, this is the man who changed the game in your country, the spearhead of what rugby in South Africa is, and what it means to the nation.

This is the man who turned things around in 2019 at the Rugby World Cup when an unexpected defeat rocked the nation.

This is the man who turned things around last season when the Wallabies had the audacity to do at Ellis Park what the All Blacks did yesterday, a second half performance from the heavens.

Last year a week later in Cape Town, Rassie turned the tables on the Wallabies, and many sensible Kiwi's are already expecting a similar bounce back.

The All Blacks win yesterday has ignited this series. It has given Dave Rennie and all of his men in black the self belief that the seemingly "doubtful" is indeed possible.

For South Africa, it has removed any sense of possible entitlement, and replaced it with "we have work to do". There should be no alarm bells.

Nature has a wonderful way of balancing things. Our two great nations have been at it for decades.

One wins, the other bounces back. We enable each other to be better, to do better, and to play better.

Damian De Allende's 100th game was still special for me. I still missed Siya Kolisi from the Boks team, and I ate my cake post game in solidarity with Ox Nche.

As global rugby fans it always tastes better if we can have empathy for the opposition, remain humble in victory, and salute the incredible scenes our beloved game delivers week in week out.

This is not the just the greatest rivalry tour for me, this is another chapter in the "greatest memory tour" , a tour where rugby fans over the years will look back and say, " I was there at that game," " or , I watched that", or " I remember that".

Rugby is the greatest gift that keeps on giving.

The tour continues...

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@Mericamemed Did not let the old man in 😂

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@ElonmuskWIZ 7

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@Wisdom_HQ 116

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@NUCLRGOLF Take up lawn bowls

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@MB5Plug Willie Le Roux, also only played for PRG second team.

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@morellifit Test

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@PovertykillerB What a legend, thank you kind sir.

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@bensmithrugby It’s way past your bed time doos !!

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@_mashesha So you made the decision to override your constitution, to allow him back?

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@jaredwright17 He was injured, limping around mid way through the second half

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@TheKiffness I can imagine there may be a few G Wagons on the market 😂

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@sewelankoana What world do you live in

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@News24 @Nikki_Coetzee

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@FloydShivambu Thank god

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@SASCHOOLSPORTS How do you work this out, Bishops have beaten Ronderbosch Wynberg and Stellenburg this season and they are all ranked above them

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@TankLanning What a game of rugby 👊

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@Kevlerenaboxing No better motivation bud, all the best, you has got this 💥