Flyhalf Manie Libbok pictured during a Springboks training session will drive their game from the number 10 position against England on Saturday.
It was a year ago that Manie Libbok was the flyhalf general of a Springbok team that got their tactics spectacularly wrong against the Wallabies at Ellis Park, with a runaway start on the scoreboard turning into a nightmare second-half meltdown.
The Boks rattled up 22 points in no time, but Australia scored the next 38 for a shock win that silenced the 52000 crowd.
Libbok on Saturday will be the flyhalf at Ellis Park once more — against England in the Nations Championship opener — and he admitted on Wednesday that painful lessons had been learned.
“We got off to a fast start, we scored some very good tries, but we did not get the balance right in that game,” said Libbok, who is also eight more Tests the wiser about how to run the Springbok game.
