Boks captain Matfield fired up ahead of Scotland challenge

SOUTH AFRICA captain Victor Matfield has warned his team are in vengeful mood following a torrid trip to Edinburgh ahead of their Test match against Scotland today (5pm).

Jake White’s team endured a 13-hour journey from Galway, which saw them having to fly back to Heathrow and then a 90-minute drive to their hotel outside the Scottish capital.

“It was not nice spending the Wednesday before a Test stuck in buses and airports but what happened and now nothing less than full Test match mode will be tolerated,” Matfield said yesterday. The lock agreed that the Boks had not been nearly as physical as they should have been in Galway against Connacht, but insists it will be a different story at Murrayfield.