two minutes, south africa have just nudged ahead of england, 9-6 on the scoreboard, but i ll tell you, they have had an extremely lively start, the spring bocks playing a superior game to england at this point. they ve been absolutely dominating in the scrum. four-scrum penalty to south africa in the first half against the england pack. they are just trying to keep the scoreboard ticking over, not going for the big plays, for the tries, but instead trying to rattle the england defense and it s working because there seems to be an anxiety and lack of patience, not playing the free-flowing rugby like in the semifinal where they demolished new zealand so completely and also taking one or two heavy blows in this first half. one of their key players, carl sinclair, knocked out in the opening five minutes. he had to come off during the opening first half. so as we thought, a really