Overview
- The Junior Springboks beat Fiji 82-25 on Tuesday at Wynberg Boys’ High, leading 56-11 at half-time and scoring 12 tries across the match.
- Fullback Luan Giliomee scored a hat-trick and captain-flyhalf Vusi Moyo converted 11 kicks, underlining South Africa’s attacking firepower and points reliability.
- The hosts used a powerful driving maul to great effect, claimed to have produced around five of the team’s tries, showing a set-piece weapon that opponents struggled to defend.
- Discipline issues surfaced: replacement hooker Altus Rabe received a yellow card for illegally bringing down a maul that led to a penalty try, and Fiji’s flyhalf Sikeli Bari was sent off for a high tackle.
- Coach Kevin Foote has rotated heavily through the series to test depth and will use Saturday’s match with Georgia at Markötter Stadium as the final tune-up to finalise personnel and address the squad’s second-half lapses before the Junior World Championship next month.