Sunday rugby news as coach admits fans think he's 'crazy' for quitting Wales for Scarlets and All Blacks hit 'unimaginable' low

Your rugby headlines on Sunday August 7

The outcry over New Zealand rugby moved to a new level overnight following their Rugby Championship loss to South Africa.

Kurt-Lee Arendse's maiden Test try condemned the All Blacks to three straight defeats against the Springboks for the first time since 1998 as 14-man South Africa triumphed 26-10 in this season's tournament opener. It was also New Zealand's fifth defeat in their last six matches.

The result sees coach Ian Foster come under even more increasing pressure for his job as his side dropped to fifth in the world rankings.

The media piled on the agony with headlines such as 'Lowest in history', 'Time for a re-set' and 'Strangled suffocated and bent to Boks' will.'

Radio New Zealand called the defeat 'another extension of the gaping wound that is the national side, festering with pus and infection.'

The New Zealand Herald taunted: 'England have poked their nose ahead of the All Blacks in the world rugby rankings, with beleaguered Ian Foster's side lying fifth. It is a position almost unimaginable when the All Blacks were riding high under Steve Hansen.'

The two sides meet again in Johannesburg in a week's time, where anything other than a New Zealand victory could easily see Foster forced out of his job.

Australia recovered from trailing at half-time to wrap up a 41-26 bonus-point victory over Argentina in their own Rugby Championship opener in Mendoza, where Quade Cooper sustained another injury blow.

Argentina, led by Australian-born head coach Michael Cheika, had opened up a 19-10 lead at the interval, helped by an early try from Pablo Matera and the boot of fly-half Emiliano Boffelli.

Australia, already without captain Michael Hooper after he returned home due to not