Boks face fascinating choice between Pollard and Libbok

POLLARD V LIBBOK: Pollard had been called into the squad for the injured Malcolm Marx after two opening games against Scotland and Romania marred by errant goal-kicking from Mannie Libbok, Faf de Klerk and Damian Willemse.

Rassie Erasmus had implored people not to think of Handre Pollard as some kind of Superman but the attempt to defuse the expectations on the Leicester Tigers out-half were of little use as he stood over the tee shortly after 9pm on Sunday night.

Pollard had been called into the squad for the injured Malcolm Marx after two opening games against Scotland and Romania marred by errant goal-kicking from Mannie Libbok, Faf de Klerk and Damian Willemse. How bad was it? The Boks had the worst goal-kicking stats in the whole tournament.