Australia vs South Africa

Following a 24-8 victory for South Africa over Australia in their Rugby Championship clash, here's our five takeaways from the match in Sydney.

Nienaber knows that the Boks need to score more tries in the modern game than of late and today was a step forward in the right direction. Let’s hope we see a lot more of it and its wonderful playing surface in the years to come. The Springbok back-row were huge, both as starters and finishers with Kolisi the player of the match, Wiese hitting the most carries in the game and Franco Mostert adding urgency (and a try) to the blindside flank. Losing both your 10 and 12 in a match is unfortunate, but that’s what happened, which resulted in Nic White dropping back to outside half to try and control the match. With the undercurrent of Nic White’s theatrics last weekend, this game was played with ill-temper and vocal sledging threatening to boil over at every single contact point. [Australia](https://www.planetrugby.com/team/australia) to cope with as quite consistently they were schooled in the collision.