The unthinkable has happened in South Africa. Tickets for tomorrow morning's All Black-Springbok clash in Johannesburg's giant Ellis Park are not selling - by South African standards anyway.
Thousands of tickets were last night still available for the match, which will help to decide the fate of this year's Tri-Nations series.
Local rugby writers predict the 62,000-seat stadium will be full by kickoff at 3.10 am (New Zealand time), but the slow sales are being seen as a popular vote of no confidence in Springbok rugby.
One news agency reported that tickets to a test against the New Zealanders, "who dress in black and bait the 'Boks with their war-like hakka [sic], are usually as rare as rocking-horse droppings."
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