We’re a very different team from four years ago warns Pollard

By ADAM HATHAWAY

History men: Japan beat South Africa in Brighton in 2015

SOUTH African fly-half Handre Pollard has refused to turn the clock back and insists the Springboks can go one better than they did four years ago at this World Cup.
Pollard starts at 10 as the Boks face Japan in Tokyo in today’s quarter-final and all the talk this week has been about 2015.
Famously the South Africans lost 34-32 to an Eddie Jones-inspired Japanese side in their first Pool game but still recovered to make the knock-out stages.
There they won a brutal last eight game against Wales, 23-19, befor...

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