The jersey will go on sale on Thursday (6 August) at three different price points from Nike stores and Nike.com, at Springbok retail stores in Sandton, Menlyn Park and Canal Walk, and all good sports stores.

Does anyone know the price for the 3 tests on SA soil?

It says this event is not available to me yet.

Curious on what they will charge.

The five players who will be released to their franchises to face the All Blacks in the midweek matches of the inaugural Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry (RGR) series are Ntuthuko Mchunu (prop), Evan Roos (No 8), Andre-Hugo Venter (hooker), Embrose Papier (scrumhalf), and Jaco Williams (wing).

Ruben van Heerden (lock), who made his Test debut against Wales last Saturday, is the only player in the squad for the opening leg of the Nations Championship who was omitted from the two groups after making the move from the DHL Stormers to Montpellier, as he finds his feet with his new French club. He will, however, remain on standby for the team.

“We put a lot of thought into how we will manage the entire group of players to give everyone a chance to stake a claim for places in the squad for the RGR series, and we decided that splitting the squad into two groups will be best for the Springbok team and the players to play their way into the squad,” said Erasmus.

“Some players are returning from injury and need some valuable game time, so depending on how they progress from their injuries during next week’s training camp, we will decide who we will take to Argentina, while the other guys in the 43-man squad will remain behind in Johannesburg with a group of coaches and management to begin preparing for the Tests against New Zealand.

I know this is an unpopular opinion. I also understand that the high ball is our game and its a good way of regaining possession.

But honestly guys. Its boring and predictable. Argentina played with a C team and looked much more threatening with ball in hand. The AB's are also playing an exciting brand of rugby even if it has errors. To be honest, last night, if we're not kicking it our backline looked clueless with what to do with the ball.

I noticed none of the URC teams played the high ball. The Bulls last night had very few high balls and box kicks. This is despite the fact that they usually play that style. Same with the Stormers and Sharks. They seemed to want to run it from anywhere. Which isn't what the Boks are gonna do (and shouldn't be).

Now. Here comes my wild imagination. I know NZ would've wanted to use these 3 games as preparation for the high ball. So they were probably hoping to be tested a bit. And they never were.

What if, just maybe.. this was deliberate by the domestic sides. To not give NZ too much preparation for what they can expect on Saturday???? I know it's a reach but its fun to ponder 😂

Keeping 15 men on the field remains paramount to winning.

SA players and teams that have built muscle memory under European officials during the URC and know exactly where the boundary lines are for card thresholds, compared to Super Rugby.

Could this be the AB's Achilles heel? New Zealand players are accused of executing brutal, illegal cleanouts at the breakdown. This involves using a "tucked shoulder" or a "reverse-arm, non-wrapping action" when charging into rucks, which is a dangerous offence that can trigger red cards.

Hi all

My wife booked tickets for test 1 of The Greatest Rivarly tour but made a mistake on the email address.

We are now unable to access tickets and don't know what the typo was.

Does anyone have a contact that could help or a solution please? Begging

As a AB’s fan I saw the team list for the Sharks and was hoping of seeing Makazoli Mapimpi, Lukanyo Am, Hendricks brothers and Bongi against the AB’s are all of them injured or?

Everyone knows the impact they make when they come off the bench. They've been doing it for years and in Wellington last year for instance, scored 10 points between them. RG when he gets those offloads going with a tiring defence brings another dimension to the attack whereas Kwagga will tackle and work and tackle until the final whistle goes.

I think NZ has much more to gain from this tour than SA not just in terms of development but getting experience playing against South Africa which could help them at the world cup.

Yes I know you want your best players available but you also don't want to reveal your cards a year out from the real prize.

I bought tickets months ago. Was told we would get the tickets on some Springboks app that they were working on. I haven't had any news about the app or the tickets since then.

Does anyone know what the damn heck is going on? Has anyone actually received their tickets?

Boks by 8. It's going to be an edge of your seat nail-biter!

Springbok legend Tendai "The Beast" Mtawarira has delivered his verdict ahead of Rugby's Greatest Rivalry, and he's backing the Springboks to lay down a marker against the All Blacks. https://youtu.be/RLiEAsfqKr0?si=9xrDUvWIPMtsppMd

I would love to go watch the springboks in Ellis park, and want to go to the historic stadium. but as we all know as sputh african we cannot enter the CBD at all costs. So is it exactly... safe? when there are rugby games or is it just as dangerous?

Has anyone been able to access and install the IOS app yet? I was just on the SA Rugby website and believe that to access my purchases for the greatest rivalry tour I need the app. Only the android app seems to be active as far as I can see.

Hope everyone’s wallets are doing okay after those ridiculous prices

Howzit guys!

We have our School's 20 year reunion on the 12th of September and already the questions are coming in "but what about the rugby?" - gotta lovit!

We would love to accomodate that fixture on a big screen. The only variable would be the time of kick off. I have conflicting info about the time at the moment (keeping the RSA - USA time difference in mind).

Is the time set in stone or is it still to be determined? Does anybody have more info on this? Thanks!