🎉 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WILCO LOUW 🥂 "The prop who kept coming back, from a missed world cup to a starting jersey for the world's number one side" There are props who scrummage hard for eighty minutes and are forgotten by Monday. And then there are those a national coach names specifically when explaining a selection call. Wilco belongs firmly in the second category. Born on 20 July 1994, in Ceres, in the Western Cape, he turns 32 today. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com 📸 via Springboks #JustPlainSport #WilcoLouw #Springboks #HappyBirthday

🇿🇦 SPRINGBOKS, BLITZBOKS AND JUNIOR BOKS ALL REIGN AS BACK-TO-BACK WORLD CHAMPIONS 🏉 South Africa now hold back-to-back world titles at three separate levels of men's rugby at the same time. The Springboks. The Blitzboks. The Junior Boks. No other nation in the sport's history has managed that. This is not a coincidence, and it is not a purple patch. It is a dynasty, built layer by layer, and it is still standing. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #Springboks #Blitzboks #JuniorBoks #JustPlainSport

🏆 🏆 JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONS! 🇿🇦 Congratulations, Junior Bokkies!!! Back-to-back 🇿🇦 #JuniorWorldChampionship #Rugby #SouthAfrica #JuniorBoks #RWC

🇿🇦The SPRINGBOKS DESTROY 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿WALES 43-0 IN DURBAN👏🦌 🏉 Reinach gets his 20th Try and 100 test point! 🏉 Jaco Williams scores a try on his Bok Debut!! 🏉 Kurt-Lee Arendse get his 25th try in a Springbok jersey! #RSAvWAL #NationsChampionship #Rugby #JustPlainSport #Springboks Wales

🚨 LUAN GILIOMEE CLEARED: RED CARD SCRAPPED AS WORLD RUGBY RULES NO FOUL PLAY 🏉 Luan Giliomee's name is clean. The red card that threatened to derail his breakout year has been thrown out entirely, with World Rugby confirming there was no foul play in the aerial contest that got him sent off in the first place. The Junior Springboks utility back was shown a 20-minute red card in the second half of the World Rugby U20 Championship semi-final against England in Tbilisi on 13 July, upgraded via bunker review for aerial contact with opposite number George Pearson. It capped a bruising afternoon on the disciplinary front for South Africa. England flanker Seb Kelly had already been shown a permanent red card of his own in the first half, sent off for a headbutt on Giliomee in a completely separate incident. Two red cards from two separate incidents, and only one of them should ever have stood. ⸻ 🗣️ "Giliomee did exactly what he's coached to do — compete for the ball in the air. This was never a red card, and World Rugby's own panel just proved it!" – 🎙️Jay ⸻ Written By Jay🎙️ #Giliomee #Redcard #Springboks #WorldRugbyU20 #JWC2026 #JustPlainSport

🇿🇦 KES TAKES OVER SPRINGBOK RUGBY THIS SATURDAY WITH 6 OLD BOYS ON DUTY 🏉 There are schools that produce the odd Springbok, and there is King Edward VII School. On Saturday 18 July, the Johannesburg school will have representation in two different Springbok jerseys, on two different continents, in matches that kick off almost on top of each other. KES has been turning out rugby talent since 1902, but its most remarkable claim has nothing to do with volume. It is the only school in the world to have produced two World Rugby Player of the Year winners, Bryan Habana in 2012 and Malcolm Marx in 2025. That alone would be enough for most schools to build a museum wing around. KES is adding to the collection this weekend. Marx starts at hooker when the Springboks host Wales at Hollywoodbets Kings Park in Durban, kick-off 17:40. He matriculated from KES in 2012 and has spent the years since building the resume that made him the reigning World Player of the Year. Alongside him in that starting XV is Vusi Moyo, a 20-year-old flyhalf who matriculated from KES in 2024 and was named among four uncapped players in Rassie Erasmus's squad for the match. Moyo becomes the sixth Springbok produced by the school, and the first since Scarra Ntubeni in 2019. There is a third KES name inside the senior camp this week, away from the field. Zintsika Tashe serves as the Springboks' Operations Manager under Erasmus, part of the management team that keeps the wheels turning behind every Test. He has described King Edward VII as his own alma mater. #RSAvWAL #JuniorWorldChampionship #KESRugby #Springboks #JustPlainSport

🇿🇦 FOUR NEW SPRINGBOKS: THE STORIES BEHIND WILLIAMS, MOYO, VAN HEERDEN AND SADIE'S TEST CALL-UPS 🏉 Four new names will be added to the list of Springboks Test caps on Saturday when Rassie Erasmus’s side takes on Wales at Hollywoodbets Kings Park in Durban. Jaco Williams, Vusi Moyo, Ruben van Heerden and Carlu Sadie all win their first caps in the third round of the Nations Championship, and each of them has taken a completely different road to get there. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #JustPlainSport #RSAvWAL #Springboks #NationsChampionship

🇿🇦 JOEL STRANSKY TURNS 59: THE MAN WHOSE BOOT UNITED A NATION 🏉 Ask any South African old enough to remember it, and they can tell you exactly where they were. Not for a birth, not for a wedding — for a drop goal. Seven minutes from the end of extra time, Joel Stransky settled the ball, stepped back, and put South Africa 15-12 up in a World Cup final. Born on 16 July 1967 in Pietermaritzburg, Joel Stransky turned 59 yesterday. Happy 59th Birthday, Joel. From all of us at Just Plain Sport, we hope you had a great one yesterday. 🎂🏉 Cheers! 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #JustPlainSport #RugbyLegend #JoelStransky #happybirthday