“They took an ungodly amount of punishment in this match. It was thunderous stuff, games between these two teams always are. They’ll be able to plot this one on the seismographs. In Twickenham, oaks were coming down, in Richmond, pictures were falling from walls, as far away as Acton someone had a vase topple from their mantel. What the hell do they feed these Springbok forwards?…… Maro Itoje spent most of this match being tossed around like a raft in the Roaring Forties. Twice in the first half he was blown clean off his feet and carried backwards by the blast of the Springbok tackles. Once he was hit by Ox Nche and Wilco Louw, then again by Siya Kolisi and Pieter-Steph du Toit. By the end of the game, he was being tossed down to the ground like a ragdoll by Cobus Reinach. England’s cunning plan to throw their first line out over the top to Ben Earl ended up with him being utterly steamrollered by Kolisi, who hit him with a tackle that made you hope his mother wasn’t looking.”
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In The Guardian today :
“They took an ungodly amount of punishment in this match. It was thunderous stuff, games between these two teams always are. They’ll be able to plot this one on the seismographs. In Twickenham, oaks were coming down, in Richmond, pictures were falling from walls, as far away as Acton someone had a vase topple from their mantel. What the hell do they feed these Springbok forwards?…… Maro Itoje spent most of this match being tossed around like a raft in the Roaring Forties. Twice in the first half he was blown clean off his feet and carried backwards by the blast of the Springbok tackles. Once he was hit by Ox Nche and Wilco Louw, then again by Siya Kolisi and Pieter-Steph du Toit. By the end of the game, he was being tossed down to the ground like a ragdoll by Cobus Reinach. England’s cunning plan to throw their first line out over the top to Ben Earl ended up with him being utterly steamrollered by Kolisi, who hit him with a tackle that made you hope his mother wasn’t looking.”