{"id":49318,"date":"2025-08-07T02:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49318\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T02:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:28:21","slug":"ex-all-black-first-five-backs-springboks-to-end-eden-park-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/49318\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-All Black first five backs Springboks to end Eden Park streak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former All Black first five and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/blues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blues<\/a> legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/players\/carlos-spencer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Spencer<\/a> has backed the Springboks to end the 50 Test unbeaten run at Eden Park when the two teams meet next month.<\/p>\n<p>As an assistant coach with the Black Ferns XV that recently toured South Africa, Spencer was asked for his views on the reigning World Cup winners.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer leaned towards the Boks as \u2018favourties\u2019 for the Test after a lacklustre showing by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/new-zealand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">All Blacks<\/a> against the understrength French squad in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">\u201cI\u2019ve got the Springboks as favourites. They\u2019re number one in the world for a reason. They\u2019re the team to beat,\u201d Spencer told SportsBoom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t the strongest French side, and we struggled at times in the series.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Harris on Junior Boks\u2019 availability<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>Harris on Junior Boks\u2019 availability<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the All Blacks and Springboks rivalry is always electric. Eden Park will be buzzing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Africa open their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/the-rugby-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby Championship<\/a> campaign with two home Tests against the Wallabies fresh off a 2-1 series defeat to the British &amp; Irish Lions.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, New Zealand will tour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/argentina\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina<\/a> for two Tests meaning both teams will have to deal with jet lag when they return for the Eden Park clash.<\/p>\n<p>The former All Black No.10 also warned against the rising Wallabies, who he described as \u201cdangerous\u201d after pushing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/lions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lions<\/a> in the second and third Tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">\u201cThe Wallabies looked sharp, especially in the last two tests. Their prep coming into the Rugby Championship has been solid,\u201d Spencer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">\u201cThey\u2019ll be dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All Black first five and Blues legend Carlos Spencer has backed the Springboks to end the 50&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-49318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49318","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=49318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}