Springboks followers are anxious Ireland and Scotland might collude to knock South Africa out of the 2023 Rugby World Cup.
The two nations conflict on Saturday evening of their ultimate Pool B match.
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The Irish want only a win to prime the pool whereas Scotland wants to win by 21+ factors to attain the quarter-finals. By profitable by that margin, it should finally knock the Springboks out of the event.
Realistically, the Irish must be too robust for the Scots however many Boks followers are anxious that the 2 groups may resort to match-fixing.
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Boks are favourites and most groups would somewhat see them out of the Rugby World Cup than play them within the knock-out spherical.
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This week, Springbok head coach Jacques Nienaber hoped each Ireland and Scotland might play a ”clear sport’.
“I think between ourselves, Ireland and Scotland, everybody can still miss out on the quarter-finals, every single team, all three of those teams, but all three can also still make it so the pool will only be decided on Saturday,” Nienaber stated.
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“Could I consider in a state of affairs that they’ll resolve ‘do we want to get this amount of points and then get South Africa out of the way?’ That would in all probability be match-fixing, I might say. I hope not.
“Rugby is clean. We wear those t-shirts so hopefully not because that would be extremely disappointing.”
Springboks are at the moment on a two-week break having concluded their Pool this previous weekend in opposition to Tonga.
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