The Springboks are missing their families in South Africa and can’t wait to spend the next two weeks at home before hitting bubble life again for their end-of-year tour to the UK.
With a busy international programme, the Boks have been in lockdown or isolation basically since before they played Georgia on July 2.
From there they hosted the British and Irish Lions in a bubble, before starting their Rugby Championship journey.
On their way home after a long lockdown in Australia, having left at the end of August, No.8 Duane Vermeulen says: “It’s not as easy as people think – being away from home, from your families, you don’t see your kids. You don’t spend time with them, that’s vital to your mental state and where you are as a person and a player…
“We only have two weeks of being back home and then we go on another five or six-week tour.”