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The 2023 Rugby Championship will get underway this week, with South Africa taking on Australia at Loftus Versfeld in the eagerly-awaited opening match of the tournament on Saturday afternoon.

With the Rugby World Cup now within touching distance, teams from across the world are adding the final tweaks and touches to their national squads before they head off to France in September.

The reigning world champions will kick off the Rugby Championship campaign in Pretoria, which is a venue that the Wallabies have never beaten them at before.

Jacques Nienaber has been made to earn his paycheck over the last month, having to keep on top of players returning from injury and abroad, as well as scouting fresh faces following a chaotic period when the likes of the Cell C Sharks, DHL Stormers and Vodacom Bulls were involved in as many as three tournaments simultaneously.

The South African franchise clubs put on excellent showings at the United Rugby Championship and European Rugby Champions Cup tournaments earlier this year, which has led to the likes of Canan Moodie and Manie Libbok earning call-ups to the national squad for the upcoming Tests.

As expected, all the talk in the lead-up to this match has been around the team selection for the Springboks and with just seven days and 12,000 kilometres between matches, Nienaber has already dispatched 14 players down under to acclimatise themselves, including skipper Siya Kolisi, Malcolm Marx and Eben Etzebeth.

With a record of four wins and two losses in their last six matches, South Africa have slipped to fourth in the world rankings over the last year, with New Zealand marginally ahead of them in third place behind France and Ireland in second and first respectively.

South Africa beat Australia comprehensively by a scoreline of 24-8 in the most recent encounter back in September last year, but that came the week after they suffered a 25-17 loss to the Wallabies, though that match was played at the Adelaide Oval.

Australia's Pete Samu and teammates look dejected after the match on June 19, 2022© Reuters

It is no secret that Australian rugby has been going through a transition phase over the last few years, and they come into this competition currently ranked seventh in the world, with only Argentina, Wales and Japan below them in the top 10.

However, all eyes will be on Eddie Jones, who returns to the Australian dugout 20 years after leading the Wallabies to the 2003 Rugby World Cup final, and he will be tasked with returning the team to the heights he managed before heading to England.

Jones is famous for playing mind games with opponents and has been fairly quiet about the style of rugby his side will be playing, but he has included a few heavy hitters in the side, none more so than La Rochelle's Will Skelton.

Australia will have the added advantage of Jones's knowledge of the opposition on their side as he was employed as an advisor to the Springboks team that lifted the 2007 Rugby World Cup and led Japan to an unlikely win over the South Africans in the 2015 instalment.

Another key aspect in favour of the visitors is that many of their opponents have not played a competitive game of rugby since early May when the URC concluded, while several of their own players were still involved in Super Rugby under a month ago.

The visitors have only beaten Wales and Scotland in their last six matches, but with the backline that South Africa have gone with for this Test, there will likely be cracks that the Australians can exploit, and Jones will be desperate to do just that as he aims to start his new reign on the front foot.

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