Springboks eye series whitewash

– A lot of the good work done by the Springboks in clinching the England series will be tarnished if they don’t achieve a whitewash at Newlands today.

Flank Pieter-Steph du Toit (left) said he believes the general public will only remember your last game and that’s why they have to keep the momentum going.

“It’s a fine line and we must be careful to not get too happy too soon as we South Africans often tend to do.

“People have already forgotten about the series win and just want us to win again. We know we need to perform again to make everyone happy and to do our jobs well.”

Du Toit has 34 caps to his name and the 25-year-old lock has lately being used as blindside flank where his workrate and storming runs as a prime ball-carrier have made him a Bok stalwart.

“I’m playing both at the moment and enjoying it, especially with the coaches allowing me to do what I do on the field within the boundries of the system and get me in the game too,” he said.

Du Toit said “it’s nice” to get a bit more exposure on the flank, having always dreamt about playing flank for the Boks when he was younger.

“Luckily I got the opportunity, playing lock as well which is different but in our systems 4, 5 and 7 work closely together, so it’s not much of a difference, but we are allowed enough time to settle into that role.”

Du Toit said for the Welsh game they only had about two days of preparation before flying out to Washington and said it was quite tough with the travelling there and coming back as well with the jet-lag.

“But there was a plan by the coaches from the first game to now and it looks like it has worked for us so we are happy.”