CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST

The way the old-timers tell it, the Springboks were so petrified by the majesty of the All Blacks’ attacking play in the build-up to the First Test in Pretoria – 50-odd tries in 10 matches against some of the most powerful provincial teams in the country – that they concocted a secret plan and disappeared behind the high walls and the razor wire of Baviaanspoort Prison, only a few miles out of town but effectively on a different planet, to work on it.
As the great New Zealand rugby scribe Terry McLean put it, “loud were the crie...