The hairdressers’ team against Tonga, South Africa has already given, and they would have reason to say “thank you, but we won’t be caught again”. It was already in France, in 2007, a little further north than the Marseille reunion on Sunday, and that afternoon, sixteen years ago, in Lens, the Islanders had seriously upset the “Boks bis” , until taking the advantage at the start of the second period (10-7), after a try by movers, flattened by the imposing Kisi Pulu pushed by the dynamic Finau Maka. It was a kilo in the goal, enough to shake the foundations of sudaf rugby, forced to respond by bringing out the heavy artillery confined to the bench, Bryan Habana, Victor Matfield or John Smit, to rebalance the balance in his favor (30-25).
