Brenden Nel
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There's not much we can fault in what he's done over the last couple of years with the results.
So England will be the big game to win, and then after that, they obviously have to win everything else.
But I think going into the greatest rivalry tour, I think he'll have his strongest squad there and be ready for the All Blacks.
Although, I must tell you, the one thing that does worry me
is from the provincial side's point of view.
And we picked this up as well.
I had a chat to Johan Ackermann, the Bulls coach, the other day about it.
And South African sides end in May, and then they're playing the All Blacks in August.
The competition starts in September.
So it's in the middle of their preseason.
these games and in this time they've got to also give players six weeks off so that's that to them they're trying to work out how they're going to do that to get a team that's obviously not doesn't roll over before the all blacks because they want to obviously win those games but um that's going to be the challenge for them that they're playing the all blacks in the off season that sound you can hear
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I can rattle off a list for you if you're ready.
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Molly, I think what you must realize is that all these other games we want to win, we'll watch all the Australian games, we'll watch your guys' games in that Nations Championship.
I think Rossi put it best, the Nations Championship isn't the most important thing this year.
The greatest rivalry is what matters to us all.
Those four test matches, and especially those three in South Africa, I've got a feeling that fourth one's going to be a bit of a...