Nothing will quite beat Stephen Donald coming straight from fishing whitebait on the Waikato River to boot the title-winning penalty for New Zealand as its fourth-choice flyhalf in 2011. Yet Handre Pollard’s from-out-of-nowhere emergence is proving to be another Rugby World Cup storyline for the ages. Five weeks ago, the South Africa No.
South Africa’s Handre Pollard, centre is tackled by England’s George Martin, left and England’s George Martin during the Rugby World Cup semifinal match between England and South Africa at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, Saturday, Oct, 21, 2023. South Africa’s Handre Pollard kicks the ball during the Rugby World Cup semifinal match between England and South Africa at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.
in the semifinals, “but it is what you want as a player on this stage. To have moments like that as a flyhalf is what you live for.”The first came back on Sept. 17, when they decided to replace Malcolm Marx — who had sustained a tournament-ending injury midway through the pool stage — not with another hooker in a like-for-like change but for Pollard.
Pollard, along with the “Bomb Squad” of forward replacements arriving early in the second half, did just that. Eventually.
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