Are The Allblacks Ready For Springboks? | Marx To Blue Bulls?

News Headlines 

• Embrose Papier might be heading to Sale Sharks Post 2026/27 URC season as his contract will be up 
• Richie Mounga joins the Allblacks 
• Ackerman believes the Springboks will be well prepared for the Allblacks 
• Allblacks sweating on McKenzie 
• USA XV beat Argentina XV 25 - 24 
• Nonu Doing the Haka against the Allblacks (how good) 
• Wallabies romp Eddie Jones Japan 56-17 win over Japan. Taniela Tupou looking good under Kiss. Much better second half performance by the Wallabies. If you remember they lost against Ireland and France after a good first half. kiss will now prepare for Argentina which will be a good challenge for Australia 
• The #BokWomen were made to work very hard to secure a series victory in Fiji, with Maria Tshiremba scoring a hat-trick on debut 
• Springbok hooker Malcolm Marx, could be heading to the Bulls 

Build Up: 

• Allblacks s have played 3 and won 3 - what can they take away from this? 
• Regarding officials - maybe let’s get this out the way, what do we want to see? Have we seen a good performance in the past three games? Because we have the same guys refereeing the Tests. 
• Have they (Allblacks) been tested? 
• Is it genuine to call Allblacks favourites? Yes-why? No-why? 
• Depth conversation, why didn’t Springboks release players for the midweek games? (I remember Sonny Bill Williams & Nonu available for the Blues against the Lions in 2017) 
• Areas of focus for Springboks based on what we’ve seen this year? - General play, Defense, set piece, attack 
• Areas of focus for the Allblacks, based on what we’ve seen this year? - General play, Defense, set-piece: they’ve gave Neethling Fouche, Vincent Koch etc    , ABs must work on their blind side defense at scrum time. attack 
• First Test: starting 23 Boks & ABs