South Africa back on track as JP Pietersen hits Samoa with try hat-trick

We are going to have to reinstate them. The World Cup has yet another contender – as if we ever doubted that South Africa remained just that. If to dismiss them after their Japanese horror show was an overreaction, then perhaps we should greet this demolition with sobriety.Nevertheless this was about as perfect a demonstration of how to beat Samoa as any beleaguered coach could have conceived. Slow, slow, slow, steady, endure, take aim, then, with position established unarguably, erupt into the final half-hour. By the end, South Africa were beating Samoa every which way – with the ball in tigh…