Rugby Championship 2019: Springboks vs Australia: The future is green and gwijo

Those who know that wily old fox Rassie Erasmus well will tell you that he doesn’t like a fuss. He’s cut from the “it’s amazing what you can achieve when you don’t care who gets the credit” cloth. That kind of philosophy is never going to announce itself with a thunderclap, but ever since taking over, there have been glimpses of it.

It doesn’t mean the problems are fixed, even the coach himself admitted that much in his post-match interview. But it does mean that something other than the gwijo is clicking. Aphiwe Dyantyi, not available for this game but watching on, must have remembered his try-scoring debut, too. The list of players who have flourished under Erasmus’ tutelage is growing by the fixture.

It’s much easier to gloss over shortcomings when a side is winning, but that it’s the coach who brings them up without being probed is telling.

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