PETER JACKSON
Powerhouse: Dewi Lake, left, bursts over for Wales and Mason Grady, right
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THE sixth best team in Europe against the double world champions on neutral ground in London sounded ominously like another of those embarrassing mis-matches.
The challengers’ arrival at Twickenham in such a threadbare condition would have had the Springbok hierarchy wondering whether the opposition were in a fit state to give them a game ahead of the infinitely more serious business back home, the grudge series against Ireland.
Since their Six Nations whitewas...
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