Brenden Nel

In the 2019 World Cup, there was a pitch of the Springboks in the change room, all buff, shirts off.

Yeah, and they've just gone through a hell of a training camp.

They're looking great.

And then, of course, somebody in Ireland started the story, and it always tends to start in Ireland, doesn't it?

But somebody started the story about why they're looking so buff.

And at the same time, there was a positive doping test of, I think it was Apiwe Deyanti, about three months before the World Cup.

He was injured.

He went and took something dodgy.

He got caught, and he got banned for two years.

Look, I mean, players, yeah, and their players are always going to do something dodgy.

And I think the world over is the same.

A player's injured, he wants to get back in the squad quicker, he tries to go the wrong way, and he gets caught.

What happened recently, which really...

irritated me.

There was this inflammatory article in the Telegraph that kicked all this stuff off.

It said there's more positive tests, but there's less testing done.

And that correlation is easy at just face value to say, well, okay, one plus one equals three.

But it doesn't.

Because the reason, and if you go into the reasons about it, first of all, the reason why there's less testing done in South Africa

It's because the testing facility in Bloemfontein lost its water accreditation.