Fabulous Fridays

Why the Springboks won't win the Rugby World Cup

Anyone who tells you South Africa's Springboks WILL win the Rugby World Cup again this year is wrong.

It's a sweeping statement I know. There is not a Bok supporter bigger than me.

I am proudly South African and I'll throw my weight firmly behind the World Champions. But the Boks don't have what it takes to repeat their heroics of France 2007.

Now, before my fellow countrymen jump up and down and accuse me of being unpatriotic, and before the Springbok supporters club of South Africa revoke my ambassadorship, indulge me just for a minute. Let me explain my position.

South Africa have a tattered record in New Zealand. And we don't have to look further than Carisbrook Stadium in Dunedin (The House of Pain - cue dramatic music), where scrumhalf Ricky January helped the Boks to their first win there in something like 813 years.