Springboks Under Siege

Hardcover

Colin Bryden

First Edition 1981

An illustrated record of Springbok rugby in 1980 and 1981 including the NZ Tour of 1981, The Ireland team in SA, Beaumonts 1980 British Lions and the Springboks in South America. Foreword by Wynand Claassen. 160pp with many illustrations and a match-by-match record of the NZ tour and the tour of South Africa by the Irish. Pictorial boards are bumped on the coveronly. Contents tight with no penning. Rare South African publication. SIGNED by 29 Great Western Province Players from the 1980's including Shaun Povey, Henning Van Aswegen, Hennie Becker, Schalk Burger Snr, Rob Bolus, Gert Smal, Clark Ellis, Calla Scholtz, Freddie Ferreira, Hempies du Toit, J Burger, Du Plessis, Burger, Faffa Knoetze, Dawie Snyman, Attie Strauss and 2 others. The Western Province Team dominated the 1980's winning the Currie Cup 1980-1985, also providing many of the Springboks that played against British Lions in 1980, South America in 1980, NZ in 1981, Ireland in 1981 and the Cavaliers in 1986.