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The Springboks are sweating on a fresh injury concern just days out from Saturday's Nations Championship clash with Scotland, and Rassie Erasmus may be forced into yet another last-minute reshuffle before the weekend.
The timing is brutal. Selection has already been a talking point throughout this Nations Championship campaign, and now another personnel issue has landed on Erasmus' desk with the fixture clock ticking. Scotland arrive with momentum and the freedom of underdogs — exactly the kind of opposition that punishes any disruption to Bok cohesion.
Erasmus has shown throughout this tournament that he is not afraid of bold calls. He has reshuffled, rotated, and adapted when the situation demanded it, and this week may require exactly that again. Whether that produces a creative solution that ultimately strengthens the squad, or unsettles a combination he has been carefully building, is the question every South African rugby fan is asking right now.
The Springbok medical team has become as indispensable to this campaign as any player pulling on the green and gold. Squad depth is once again under the microscope, and how the world champions absorb this latest blow will say plenty about their Nations Championship credentials. In a tournament where margins are razor-thin, a forced change at this stage is never ideal — but it is a test this squad has faced before and navigated.