South Africa’s Fourie du Preez, who plays his club rugby in Japan, described the result as the low point of his career and said the Springboks had been outsmarted. The scrum-half said: “I’ve been playing there for four years, so I knew what was coming. I tried to let the guys know during the week that they are a proper nation.
“They were probably just better prepared than us, they had a lot of focus areas where they targeted us. They just outsmarted us.”

南アフリカ代表で、１１年からサントリーサンゴリアスでプレーしているＳＨフーリー・デュプレアは「日本代表は南アフリカをターゲットにし、われわれよりもしっかりと準備をしてきたのだろう。知恵で打ち負かした」と脱帽した。