Having served a ban, SA Rugby director of rugby Rassie Erasmus will be back in the coaches' box in Dublin this weekend.Three years to the day SA Rugby director Rassie Erasmus firmly put his team's Rugby World Cup triumph in Japan in 2019 in the rear-view mirror as the Springboks looked ahead to their clash against Ireland, the world's top-ranked team, in Dublin on Saturday.
“Even when you think back to how we performed in 2018, which was not great, we won the World Cup the year after. I think we all enjoyed it, but we all realise the World Cup is next year. We are very proud, but now we want to get momentum. The aim now is to go into a closely contested World Cup next year. Any bloody team can win it.”
While Erasmus and Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber, who were then contracted to Munster, sat in the stands, the hulking frame of Eben Etzebeth experienced that defeat first-hand. “We saw in that series against New Zealand, they have quite a strong maul. They have a good scrum, they won a few scrum penalties in that series.
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