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Amazing scenes as Canan Moodie's family celebrate try-scoring debut
By Josh Raisey
As far as debuts go, they do not get much better than 19-year-old Canan Moodie's for South Africa on Saturday against Australia in the Rugby Championship.
The Bulls winger became the second youngest Springbok in the professional era in Sydney, as Jacques Nienaber's side avenged their loss against the Wallabies from the week before in Adelaide to secure a 24-8 victory. Moodie bagged his side's second try of the match just a minute before half-time, leaping high above opposite man Marika Koroibete to pluck a box kick out of the air and run in more or less unopposed from 30 metres out.
What has made his debut try even more special is that a video of his family celebrating the try has made its way onto social media, and it is hard not to like.
South Africa head coach Jacques Nienaber suggested Moodie has thrown his hat in the ring for a World Cup place next year with his performance. “I am happy and proud for Canan – he’s been good for his franchise (the Vodacom Bulls), and we’ve been following his performances for a while,” said Nienaber.
“He is the fourth or fifth wing we’ve played this year, and it is tough on teams, but at the same time it gives us answers with an eye on the Rugby World Cup.”
Given the injury crisis that the Springboks are having to endure at the moment, Moodie has every chance of featuring in their two remaining Rugby Championship fixtures against Argentina in Buenos Aires and Durban. With both sides level on points in the table, back to back wins could be enough to secure the title, although it is still dependent on how the All Blacks and Australia get on in their two matches against each other.
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There's no easy fix here. From a geography standpoint, South Africa is kind of on an island alone in the rugby world, much like Argentina.
They don't have enough talent to have a top tier domestic league of their own, and it won't support the union financially. Best case you could hope for would be the five extant franchises (including Cheetahs) and perhaps a team from Namimbia. Gives you a 6 team league, that's not enough. Plus again, it's just not financially sustainable either.
At the same time, it's not really great for them to be involved in either the European or the Pacific rugby set up. That said, as bad as the travel is, at least Europe makes more sense from a time zone perspective. I still think it's the least bad option. Also has done wonders for the URC.
I don't think though, that it makes very much sense to have 4 teams from the URC excluded from European qualification. Not to mention, being able to compete in the Champions Cup was a big draw for the South African clubs anyway.
So yeah, I don't really see a change that makes more sense than the less than ideal situation that already exists.
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