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Missed opportunity? Springbok supporters are questioning why Lukhanyo Am was left off the squad to face France on Sunday...

Fly-half Libbok and scrum-half Reinach have been preferred to 2019 World Cup-winning duo Handre Pollard and Faf de Klerk respectively.

South Africa's head coach, Jacques Nienaber, has placed his faith in the unconventional half-back pairing of Manie Libbok and Cobus Reinach.

The Boks made some surprise changes to the side to face France in Paris on Sunday at Rugby World Cup 2023.

South Africa head coach Jacques Nienaber said he believed his surprise starting half-backs of Manie Libbok and Cobus Reinach are the best men for orchestrating the defeat of hosts France in Sunday's Rugby World Cup quarter-final.

The time for talking is nearly but not quite done, as France and the Springboks prepare to square off in what might be one of the most eagerly awaited Rugby World Cup quarterfinals in history.

A broken cheekbone won't keep France captain Antoine Dupont out of a definitive game for his country at the Rugby World Cup.

Gearóid Duff (‘Pope Francis should stop acting the ‘goat’ when it comes to blessing sinners’, Letters, October 6) criticises Pope Francis’s comments about the Catholic Church becoming possibly more open in the future to blessing same-sex couples “choosing to live in intimate same-sex partnerships”.

He was standing without crutches and had no knee protector - Springbok Malcolm Marx celebrates his daughter's birthday at home.

James Lowe has been blown away by the Irish support at the World Cup.