{"id":584398,"date":"2026-08-29T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584398\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:00:11","slug":"all-blacks-v-springboks-south-africa-rugby-plans-legal-action-against-travel-agencies-over-test-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/584398\/","title":{"rendered":"All Blacks v Springboks: South Africa Rugby plans legal action against travel agencies over test tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThese companies acted illegally and recklessly in pursuit of their own commercial gain at the expense of their clients.<\/p>\n

\u201cSA Rugby has turned the matter over to its attorneys.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 62,000 people filled Cape Town\u2019s DHL Stadium to watch the Springboks level the series<\/a> and hand Dave Rennie the first loss of his tenure.<\/p>\n

A relentless South Africa applied continuous pressure against an All Blacks side which made plenty of mistakes and lost by seven points.<\/p>\n

The two test matches in the series have produced packed crowds, but the games against provincial sides have seen plenty of empty seats.<\/p>\n

Fewer than 15,000 people showed up to watch the touring side play the Sharks in Durban<\/a> in the 52,000 capacity Kings Park Stadium.<\/p>\n

Swathes of empty seats were also seen in their fixtures against the Stormers, Bulls<\/a> and most recently the Lions in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

Plenty of seats are still available for the third test at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg with the cheapest available tickets priced at ZAR1650 ($172.59), while the most expensive tickets still up for grabs can be bought for ZAR4000 ($418.40).<\/p>\n

The All Blacks\u2019 next test against South Africa kicks off at 3.10am NZT on September 6 before the two teams head to Baltimore for the fourth and final test match of the tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThese companies acted illegally and recklessly in pursuit of their own commercial gain at the expense of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[432,190,9092,26696,5263,8136,9517,42,101,6712,43,1523,2171,6327,8466,1240,8137,199,765,4969,40,38,41,39,274,1339],"class_list":["post-584398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-against","tag-agencies","tag-all","tag-blacks","tag-fans","tag-headlines","tag-left","tag-legal","tag-news","tag-over","tag-plans","tag-rugby","tag-second","tag-south","tag-springboks","tag-take","tag-test","tag-tickets","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-without"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}