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Lambie eyes Springbok return, World Cup
By Online Editors
As well as finding club success with Racing 92, Patrick Lambie is desperate to play for the Springboks again in time for the World Cup in 2019.
Lambie will start in the No. 10 jersey as Racing Metro try to secure a maiden European Champions Cup title against three-time winners Leinster in Bilbao.
After several impressive performances over the course of the European season, Lambie could feature in Rassie Erasmus' Springboks squad for their three-Test series against England in June.
27-year-old Lambie remains eligible for the Springboks as an overseas-based player because he meets the established 30-cap minimum threshold.
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"I would love to play for them again and go to the World Cup next year. I realised moving overseas was maybe going to make it more difficult to play for the Springboks even though there is the 30 Tests rule," said Lambie.
"I know there's the pressure to select locally-based players. If I get selected that would be wonderful. Rassie Erasmus has made contact but not in the last few weeks. Will wait and see what happens - winning one or two titles would help... I'm sure!"
Before the June series, Lambie will be hoping to give All Blacks legend Daniel Carter a victorious send-off before he departs to Japan.
"It's really nice to have him on the same side and to have trained and played with him, seen how he does things and speak to him about the game and life outside rugby as well," Lambie told AFP.
Lambie joined Racing in 2017 after eight seasons with the Sharks in Super Rugby. He has represented South Africa 58 times.
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The England backs can't be that dumb, he has been playing on and off for the last couple of years. If they are too slow to keep up with him that's another matter.
He was the only thing stopping England from getting their arses handed to them in the Aussie game. If you can't fit a player with that skill set into an England team then they are stuffed.
Go to commentsSteve Borthwick appointment was misguided based on two flawed premises.
1. An overblown sense of the quality of the premiership rugby. The gap between the Premiership and Test rugby is enormous
2. England needed an English coach who understood English Rugby and it's traditional strengths.
SB won the premiership and was an England forward and did a great job with the Japanese forwards but neither of those qualify you as a tier 1 test manager.
Maybe Felix Jones and Aled Walter's departures are down to the fact that SB is a details man, which work at club level but at test level you need the manager to manage and let the coaches get on and do what they are employed for.
SB criticism of players is straight out of Eddie Jones playbook but his loyalty to keeping out of form players borne out of his perceived sense of betrayal as a player.
In all it doesn't stack up as the qualities needed to be a modern Test coach /Manager
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