**So far the Springboks have won all three of their Tri-Nations matches and done so without allowing their opponents a bonus point for being honourable losers and yet have won more convincingly than the score in each case. But those matches were all at home. Now they are away. They travelled late to avoid being away for too long, for of all top teams in the world South Africans travel most, furthest and for longest.
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South Africa's inexorable march towards the Tri-Nations should continue unabated on Saturday, as they head to Perth to face Australia.***
