Springboks up for more awards!

Following a year in which the Springboks won plenty of accolades following their Rugby World Cup-winning heroics in Japan, plenty more recognition remains in the offing for the contingent in green and gold.

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The Rugby Union Writers’ Club have nominated a number of the teams’ personnel ahead of their annual awards. Captain fantastic, Siya Kolisi, who has since become everybody’s favourite man-of-the-moment and scrumhalf Faf de Klerk, have both been nominated for the writers’ clubs’ 2019 Personality of the Year.

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Springboks personnel continue to be the subject of one awards nomination after another (Image: Sourced).

Director of Rugby at SA Rugby and the then-Bok coach, Rassie Erasmus, is also up for the same award, with Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones and his talismanic opposite number for Japan, Michael Leitch, completing the list of five. Leitch skippered Japan to the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals in front of fervent home supporters and has been a tremendous servant of the game in the emerging rugby powerhouse, while Jones is one of Wales’ most-capped players.

He led the Dragons to the Grand Slam in 2019 and to fourth at the first Rugby World Cup in Asia. The Pat Marshall Memorial award will be presented to the Rugby Personality of the Year recipient at a gala dinner in London later this month. Last year’s winner was Johnny Sexton, the Ireland and Lions fly-half, while previous winners include England’s fly-half and head coach, respectively, Owen Farrell and Eddie Jones.