Ox Nche and the rest of the Springboks pack are preparing to go back to that dark place ahead of the much-anticipated scrum battle in their Rugby Championship match against Argentina.
The dark place or the gutter is where the Springboks thrived during the Rugby World Cup, when they had to dig deep to win three successive knockout matches to lift the Webb-Ellis trophy in France.
It doesnt get any darker than the scrums, which the Springboks used a massive weapon to get over the line, especially in that epic semi-final against England, where their stocky loosehesad prop Nche came to the fore.
Coming on in the second half, Nche produced a scrum clinic to almost single-handedly get the Boks back in the contest, before helping South Africas win the defining scrum penalty, which replacement flyhalf Handre Pollard duly converted.
But, on Saturday in Santiago del Estero (11pm kickoff), Nche could up against a Los Pumas bogeyman that is just as comfortable in the gutter.
