Brandon Portnoy
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This is arguably my favorite photo I’ve ever taken of the Boks 📸
I can only imagine the story Siya was telling the boys to get all those looks 😂
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I watched this try at least 5 times. Schoolboy rugby in South Africa 🔥🔥
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We love Pollard and he is among the greatest ever.
But Libbok deserves special mention. Won 8/9 Test matches he started in 2023.
Carried the Springboks through a period where fans thought we had no chance without Handre.
All in his first international season 👏
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Jesse Kriel 👏
So many owe this man an apology. He is the true epitome of what this Springbok team is all about.
Unsung hero at this World Cup 🫡
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I went on a lap around Emirates Airline Park yesterday following Siya Kolisi.
He just gets it. There’s no other way to put it. He understands what he means to the country. And the responsibility he carries.
What a guy.
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I’ve been lucky enough to film the South African anthem at the three Tests against Wales but yesterday at Mbombela was something else. Nelspruit has BEEN waiting and they did not disappoint 🇿🇦😭🥲
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Leicester dropping the coldest Pollard and Wiese edit 🥶
These okes were just partying on the bus two days ago, how are they already back in England training 😅
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50 000 fans hold up their signs to form the South African flag before two planes fly over Loftus 🇿🇦✈️
Rugby season is here and it’s going to be good 🥹
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Wild to think half our country is dopping at 7am on a Sunday morning, watching a sport they know nothing about, supporting an oke about to make history, screaming “Hulle weet nie wat ons weet nie’ to anyone in sight. South Africa is undefeated 🇿🇦😂
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OH. MY. DAYS. This is the best piece of fielding I have ever seen. Wowza 🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️
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This Springbok training drill is wild 🙆♂️
The way Siya was just throwing Moodie around killed me 😂
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Can South Africa just host one more Rugby World Cup please? 😭
If yesterday showed anything, it’s that it would undoubtedly be the biggest sports party in rugby history 🥳
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🕯️ 2027 Springbok backline 🕯️
9. Grant Williams
10. Manie Libbok
11. Canan Moodie
12. Sacha Feinberg Mngomezulu
13. Lukhanyo Am
14. Kurt-Lee Arendse
15. Damian Willemse
The dream has changed slightly but it lives on ⚡️
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BTS of the Springboks team photo session in Durban just dropped! 😂
More hugs, laughs, annoying each other and all round good vibes 🥹
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Too much hype from St Albans with this war cry! When that trumpet hits 🗣️👏
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Faf de Klerk is my hero 😂
I aspire to be this level of annoying to my colleagues and friends 🤭
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If ever you find yourself doubting why Rassie was awarded a doctorate, watch this video and listen to his words 👏🧠
#ChasingTheSun2
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Pieter-Steph du Toit casually dropped the greatest
#RWCFinal
performance of all time. What did we just witness 🇿🇦💚
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I’ve watched this video over 50 times and it still makes me emotional today. Kaunda really captured Siya Kolisi’s captaincy debut perfectly and even those who don’t understand the language like me can feel it 🇿🇦
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I remember running at an athletics meet at Edenglen back in 2010 in grade 11. This kid named Akani absolutely smoked everyone in the 100m and I remember looking at a mate and saying what the hell did we just see. Turns out, we saw a future Olympic silver medalist. Legend 🇿🇦👏
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I love how comfortable Rassie is talking about players in isolation and ensuring fans understand where that player is in his roadmap. We all want Siya Masuku to play, but now we have context around his development. A coach who values his fans so much 🙌
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One day, 20 years from now, when we’re looking back at life, we’ll realize how privileged we were to live through the Siya Kolisi and Rassie Erasmus era. We get to see it unfold every single week in real time. We’re experiencing South African history in the making. Amazing 🇿🇦👏
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The Daan Human bucket hat is reversible and can be worn both ways 🥶🥶🥶
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The Stormers doing neck rolls and shoulder shrugs in the graphics line-up is killing me 😂
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This is without a doubt the funniest clip I have seen in rugby 😂😂 Load shedding + Xhosa commentary is UNBELIEVABLE 🔊
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Interviews with the Boks in Toulon have been the best form of entertainment 😂
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Eben Etzebeth will go down as one of the greatest in the history of the game. Monstrous performance! The boys ain’t going anywhere 🇿🇦💚
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21-year-old Eben Etzebeth steamrolling the legendary Bismarck du Plessis back in 2012 has its place in my “no ways that just happened” rugby moments Hall of Fame 💥🫢
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I’ve never witnessed such pure happiness like seeing Schalk Brits reunite with his Springbok teammates! He even gave me a hug having never met me, what a guy! 👏
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Working on these Springbok team videos this year has been the best experience 🙏
Seeing all the positive comments and love among South Africans from all backgrounds is exatly what we intended when the concept was born 💚
This is the final one.
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So happy I caught this moment of
@josephdweba2
and
@StevenKitshoff
messing about 🤳
Okes need to have a laugh every now and then 😂
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Jacques Kallis driving like this at 48 years old is nuts 😮💨
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Yesterday we were going home before the opening ceremony.
Today we are one match away from gold. Never write off South Africa and the Blitzboks! 🇿🇦
Unreal defence, that was just beautiful to watch 💚
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One of my goals before the All Blacks was to ensure we tell the story of how each Springbok got his nickname from the
@SuperSportTV
isiXhosa commentary team. Done! 🇿🇦✅
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Imagine turning up to school on Monday after being stepped like this 💀
Epic try from Ockhuis, the DHS scrumhalf 🥴
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This piece of content has been three years in the making.
Anyone who knows me knows I’m passionate about rugby in this country and growing the game!
Super proud to finally be able to show the legends behind the iconic voices that South Africa loves!
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Siya Kolisi is one of the most humble and genuine humans you will ever meet. His words go beyond rugby and when he talks, you don’t look away once. Our leader 🇿🇦💚
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15. Kolbe
14. Arendse
13. Am
12. Willemse
11. Mapimpi
10. Libbok
9. Williams
It’s nice to dream though. Imagine! 🔥🔥
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Nah this try from UJ last night needs to be spoken about more 🥵🥵
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Bongi cried those tears with 60million of us. Imagine the chaos going around that stadium and the pure emotion and relief in that changeroom, alone. Mike Tyson 💛🥊
#ChasingTheSun2
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One day when Cheslin and Thomas are retired, this is going to make for one of the greatest rugby podcast discussions 😂
#ChasingTheSun2
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One of the craziest pieces of analysis I’ve ever seen. Swys de Bruin is a genius. Most people wouldn’t have been batted an eyelid at this but it speaks volumes about Siya’s character 👏🇿🇦
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Not Trevor Nyakane in the last minute of extra time with a dummy to score 😂
Easily one of the best Currie Cup semifinals in a very long time!
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This is why sports documentaries are so important. The world gave Willie so much shit after that game but to learn that he played with no feeling in his arm is insane and admirable.
Can’t wait for
#ChasingTheSun2
and more stories like this 🙌
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South Africa hosting three URC finals in a row? Lekkkeerrrr 🇿🇦🐐
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Anyone who watched Rassie’s presser today knows he was incredibly complimentary towards Razor, the All Blacks and their entire squad.
Yet I opened YouTube to see this as the first video from Rugby Pass. The title of the video is simply mind blowing actually 🤯
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I could watch this tackle of Schalk Burger on Fourie du Preez over and over again! 🙆♂️😂
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Fans have every right to criticize players if they don’t perform well. But the abuse towards Manie Libbok has been crazy. The guy has been the best rugby player in this country for the better part of 9 months. Swys is spot on here ⚠️
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Just imagine what’s going to happen when the Irish turn up later this year. When this song plays out in Loftus and Rassie’s name is being belted out, it’s going to be crazy 😂
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The bucket hat.
The look.
The seriousness.
The context.
Daan Human is iconic 🥶
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The talent in school rugby in South Africa is so deep! Obviously the individual brilliance here from the fullback is amazing but the offload from the winger also needs to be appreciated 👏
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Ronald Brown is a flippen unbelievable inspiration 👏
From being diagnosed with cancer a few seasons ago to beating it and winning a bronze medal at
#Paris2024
“Whatever you’re facing you can overcome it“
Ronny B, what a guy 💚🇿🇦
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This Grey College side is insane!
▪️ Beat Affies 60-19
▪️ Beat Paarl 39-30
▪️ Beat Selborne 41-0
▪️ Beat Stellenberg 33-8
▪️ Beat Garsies 23-9
▪️ Beat Outeniqua 19-17
▪️ Beat Maritzburg 37-24
▪️ Beat Paarl Gim 33-12
▪️ Beat St Andrews 48-0
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This is why I love my job 🥹
We showed Manie Libbok this video and his reaction was beautiful 🇿🇦
The Springboks 🤝 Inspiring the country
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Whenever someone is being kak, this is how I am going to respond. Thank you Rassie 😂
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It may be a new season but there is no chance the Springbok team photo videos were going anywhere!
The first one of the season is out and it proves again that it’s always the scrumhalf who causes the most kak 😂
🎥:
@SSRugby
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From Damian Willemse hitting bicycle kicks to RG Snyman channeling his Peter Crouch and Rassie getting in on the action, the vibes in the Springbok camp look just about perfect to me 🇿🇦📈
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A completely different perspective of the Haka from our GoPro 👀
Important to remember that the camera isn’t allowed in certain positions in order to respect the tradition and culture of it!
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When Rassie dropped that “Siya Kolisi is not the biggest thing in South Africa, South Africa is the biggest thing in South Africa” line and Siya’s reaction. That was deeeeep 😮
#ChasingTheSun2
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The Xhosa commentary from this weekend’s rugby though 😂🔥👏
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The way Bob Skinstad sums up the soul of the Springboks 👏🤌
South Africa is just built different 🇿🇦
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Rassie was already planning for 2027 back in 2018 when he got the job. Unbelievable. The best rugby brain that’s ever existed surely 🧠
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This is disgusting and disrespectful. It’s been deleted by
@RugbyPass
but we always screenshot for receipts.
Imagine labeling a player getting sent off in his final match for a club where he became a legend and hero as a “fitting end”.
What 🤯🤯
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This is my favourite change room video. Absolutely brilliant from Sunrisers coach Adi Birrell on being a good human being 🗣️
“Do the small things right. It keeps you humble”
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It’s 72 hours after the Rugby World Cup final and I still haven’t processed how Mika was the guy they chose to perform ahead of the biggest game in the history of the sport 😂
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Coquelin’s tackle on Mason Mount 🤮
How on earth is that not a red card 🤭
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That presser where Siya defended Manie, without being asked, is one of my favorite World Cup moments. I remember being in the room when he said it and the reaction was just pure admiration and respect. A true leader 👏
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Imagine being in grade 10, getting psyched up all week for this game. Only to concede one of maddest tries you’ll see off the first kickoff of the match 😮💨😭
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Bro literally said “hold my shirt” while I score this insane try 😂
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Jacques Nienaber’s speech about scripting the boys out was giving me Braveheart vibes. So happy we get to see his leadership and how much coaching the Boks actually means to him. Top dawg! 👏
#ChasingTheSun2
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To experience the love Mapimpi received yesterday in person was goosebumps stuff 🥹
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Is it even legal to head a ball in rugby? 😂
Absolutely filth from Luyanda Kunene who is by far one of the biggest talents this year!
📹:
@SSRugby
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This catch from Laura Wolvaardt deserves all the retweets in the world. Unbelievable 😳🤲
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Imagine walking into maths on a Monday morning after doing this to your rugby enemy in front of a packed crowd 👑
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Should we make ‘The Okes’ a weekly feature this season in the Varsity Cup? 😂
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This angle of Makazole Mapimpi and Kotaro Matsushima in the 2019 World Cup is unreal 😂😂
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This is the literal definition of “once in a generation” talent.
Incredible footage of 13-year-old Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu addressing his team and coaches at the Bishops U13 end of season braai in 2015 🗣️
(via
@thehonestnick
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Malcom Marx is back to his 2018 form when he was nominated Player of the Year!
Can play 80 minutes, carry the ball, steal, throw accurately and score tries. No other hooker should ever start ahead of him if he’s fit.
What a guy 🙌
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Deano Boesak from DHS literally used every single skill move that exists in rugby to score this ridiculous try 🙆♂️
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We had the chance to chat to Bruno for
@SuperSportTV
so of course we asked him about Benni! The way his face lights up shows you the respect he has for the new coach 👏
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Me when I attend my first Springboks game back at the stadium in 2 years
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Still can’t actually believe the Stormers are hosting back-to-back URC finals 🤯 There’s just nothing quite like rugby 🤧
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Right time, right place! 🤳
This Damian Willemse try was next level man, my guy was HYPED 😂🔥
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South Africans taking home Man of the Match awards in rugby finals? You love to see it! What a game by Cheslin Kolbe 👏
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Siyabonga Praisegod Masuku. A top man, a top player and an amazing story.
Gold Cup champion, Currie Cup champion and now a Challenge Cup champion.
Lessssgooo 🔥🏆
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One of the first rugby pieces I shot 🤳
Libbok stepping up after the hooter to send the Stormers into the URC final last year.
I decided to stay locked on the players to get their raw emotions, instead of following the ball!
Goosebumps still 😮💨
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My team. Your team. Our team. The nation’s team. The Springboks welcoming back Mapimpi and Marx is exactly what was needed the night before the
#RWCFinal
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Maturity and leadership. This was from an interview we did with Jesse Kriel back in July, the ultimate team man 🗣️
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