Writing in the Sunday Independent, Gavin Rich asks if South Africa's Class of 2009 are the best Springboks side ever.
"Comparisons are unfair, however, as how do you compare John Smit's Bok team with Philip Nel's 1937 tourists, who beat New Zealand in a series after travelling there by ship, playing several provincial games and a series in Australia?
"As this is not a leap year, the relevance of which will become apparent later, we also cannot say that this was the most successful ever season for the Springboks. What we can say with reasonable certainty though is that this era of Bok players is the finest and most successful since 1992 - and a lot of it comes down to the continuity which has been a feature of the last six years."
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