Powell puts his team on hold

Blitzboks coach Neil Powell banned all phones after advancing to the semifinals in Paris and the team went on to win. He might repeat the ban at the World Cup in San Francisco. “Normally players would take out their phones after a quarterfinal, look at social media, look at the messages from back home. In Paris, I informed them they are not allowed to. “We have to focus on the thing we always talk about — the roles and responsibilities of each and every individual in the team. We will definitely take the lesson into the World Cup in a month’s time.”