The beauty of heavy-duty semi-final between the All Blacks and South Africa is that Savea will be only the second most prolific try-scorer on the fieldSome refer to Julian Savea as the mammoth Bus”. A physicist at the University of Auckland has worked out that the All Black winger was travelling at 7.5 metres per second when he scored his third try against France last Saturday and had the kinetic energy of a 10-tonne bus travelling at three kilometres per hour. It does not require a doctorate to work out he will catch some stopping at Twickenham on Saturday.
Few opponents have achieved it since the 25-year-musty made his Test debut – he announced himself with a hat-trick – against Ireland three years ago. After only 39 Test starts for novel Zealand he has plundered 38 tries, a strike rate bettered by no player from a tier one nation in the game’s history. Maintain that spectacular record and an appropriate novel nickname may be required. “Quantity” Savea already has a certain ring to it.
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Source: theguardian.com