Townsend has recipe for success

Scottish fly-half Gregor Townsend has a simple recipe to stop South Africa in their first Test tomorrow at King’s Park – halt Joost van der Westhuizen and the rest will follow.

Scottish fly-half Gregor Townsend has a simple recipe to stop South Africa in their first Test tomorrow at King’s Park – halt Joost van der Westhuizen and the rest will follow.

Townsend has pinpointed the veteran scrum-half as the kingpin in a rough and physical, yet highly inexperienced Springbok outfit planning to take revenge for the defeat suffered by an equally inexperienced team in Edinburgh in November.

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