Steyn says Du Preez makes it very easy

NEWLANDS — One person who is particularly excited about what Fourie du Preez can bring to the Springboks in tomorrow’s Castle Lager Rugby Championship showdown with Australia at Newlands is his halfback partner Morne Steyn.

The half-centurion will play his landmark game with the man he started his Springbok career playing alongside, and a player who he just feels is a league above anyone else who plays scrumhalf. And that’s not an insult to the man Du Preez replaces, Ruan Pienaar, who Steyn also rates, but just an acknowledgement to the genius of the man coming in.

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