There was another slice of history for Rassie Erasmus’s Springboks, with back-to-back Rugby Championship titles for the first time. After this patchy victory against Argentina, owing everything to their scrum dominance, two pressing questions emerged. When will they get the chance to make it three? And would it even be two if this match had been played in Argentina?
To address the first, despite the most thrilling edition in years, there will be no Rugby Championship in 2026 with South Africa instead hosting New Zealand in what is being billed as the “Greatest Rivalry”. There will probably be a truncated version in 2027 before the World Cup, but what happens thereafter is uncertain.
