Wales<\/a> falls outside of the November Test window, meaning a dozen Springboks have been called back into their respective club teams for the resumption of the club season this weekend.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s left Vermuelen as the 25th man on the Springboks roster, just two injuries away from a dramatic return to the playing fold.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good to have him as a coach, and even at 39 years old, it\u2019s nice to train against him, because he can still set a maul, he hits the rucks hard, and he challenges us at the breakdowns,\u201d Kolisi said on the eve of the Wales Test.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now he has an opportunity to play this weekend if something were to happen to someone. So, it\u2019s a reminder that he can still do it. He\u2019s played for us, and done it all, and it\u2019s great to learn from him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kolisi\u2019s men remain at the top of the rugby world in 2025, sitting No.1 in the world rankings after an unbeaten Quilter Nations Series.<\/p>\n
Wales last occupied that top spot before 2019\u2019s Rugby World Cup, now sitting 12th after falling as low as 14th in July of this year.<\/p>\n
While Wales\u2019 current form is far from the glories of yesteryear, Kolisi sayd the Boks won\u2019t be taking them lightly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe prepare for each game the same, and we treat every opposition team the same, and honestly, we don\u2019t have a good record against Wales in Cardiff as this group,\u201d said Kolisi.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know how tough the Welsh team is, and we\u2019ve been in their position before, when in 2015 all the guys retired at the same time, and then we went through the 2016 and 2017 seasons before coach Rassie (Erasmus), coach Stick, and many of the other coaches came into the mix, which is when we started changing things.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery team goes through such seasons. What\u2019s been so good with our team is that we\u2019ve been chopping and changing, but while wanting to win. We know the Welsh will come for us this weekend, so we are looking forward to the game, and we\u2019ll give it our all.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all saw how well they played last weekend, and I think only later in the game, New Zealand<\/a> pulled away. So, we\u2019re going to have to start with intensity and play within our standards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duane Vermeulen is back on the training park tormenting teammates as he used to, says Springboks captain Siya…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-315844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}