Chris Jones

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1,513 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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DSPN -RUGBY · Can The All Blacks BEAT The Springboks? | Breaking Down The Series · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

I mean, ask any South African and you'll come up with three or four different sides because there have been so many players shown to us

who could be in that first test, that, you know, yeah, they would all look great.

But, you know, is Etzebeth still the player he was?

No, RG Snaiman means they've got to be looking for an offloading second row.

Well, can Evan reinvent himself?

He's tried it before, hasn't he?

But it's all looked a bit embarrassing and not off the cuff.

So...

I would just think that in this first test, I expect to see very much the team that you used against Ireland.

And this is with an asterisk, because by the time you get to it, unless he hides all those players, there could be some injury problems.

So you have to have this flexibility.

I keep coming back to the same attitude you have to have for a Lions tour.

You have to expect the unexpected.

And it's your ability, both as coaches and as players, to deal with the constant change of hotels, the up and down altitude.

These are all aspects of touring, which for the current players are all new things to deal with.

They did it in 96, but that's a long time ago.

So, you know, some players just don't enjoy this type of touring because it asks a lot of you mentally as well as physically.

Yeah, you are in that bubble.

And the way it's so prescriptive now for the media, getting access to these players is so limited that their ability to just be normal, just have a chat with you, as you would do back home, isn't factored into it because everything is going to be controlled.

And security is massive in South Africa.

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