Damian De Allende: 'Exceptional' Moodie is a creative force

As auditions go, Canan Moodie's performance against the All Blacks was electrifying.

LIVEWIRE: Canan Moodie of South Africa. Pic: ©INPHO/Andy Watts

South Africa haven’t just won three World Cups on a platform of physically imposing and technically superb packs. They have built a culture and an aura on the back of them. Dominating opposing sides isn’t so much what they do as who they are.

Curious to think, then, that when World Rugby revealed a Dream Team for the 2022 calendar year with three Springboks contributing to the XV that there was only one forward, Malcolm Marx, among them.