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Live blog: Junior World Championship in South Africa – day two
By Liam Heagney
It’s day two at the 2023 Junior World Championship and another cracking fixtures list is in store with six more matches set to be played across two venues in South Africa.
Rugby fans in Paarl will be especially spoiled by what is in store at the local school ground as Thursday’s schedule kicks off with the mouth-watering meeting of Ireland, the current U20s Six Nations champions, versus Australia.
Next on the list is the clash of France, the title holders from 2019, and New Zealand, the tournament’s most frequent title winners, and the feast of Paarl action concludes with the hosts South Africa tackling Italy.
Meanwhile, down the road in Stellenbosch, the activity begins with Wales taking on Japan followed by Argentina against Georgia and round two will then be concluded by England facing Fiji.
It’s a bumper programme of age-grade entertainment and you can follow how it all unfolds on the RugbyPass live blog:
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Agreed. As a Saffa I have much respect for the ABs. I also have to say given any option I would ONLY prefer to lose to ABs. To lose to England is probably the most embarrassing think to happen to either of us.
There was a time when both of us lost to England and we both hated it. Thankfully those days are behind us. Kudos to you guys, kudos to ABs. But dear old BS seems to hate us Boks. No idea why.
Go to commentsI got the sense that holding him to it was kickback from SB and the rfu smarting at being jilted quite so soon, so unexpectedly and so publicly.
Seem to remember that they spoke to Gustard before appointing Joe and you really have to think he would have come in at a higher level?
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