Boks: Rising trend of sound discipline is reassuring ally
Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber addresses reporters after naming his team to face Ireland on Tuesday, 19 September 2023.
Discipline in rugby and sport more broadly tends to be greatly more noticeable when it is bad ... the Springboks are largely flying beneath the radar on that front at RWC 2023 for the very reason that there has been little cause for major concern so far. It is a pattern that has taken increasingly healthy root for some time, much of it coinciding with the period from 2018 onward with Rassie Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber their key coaching figures.
Now the director of rugby, Erasmus may ruffle the feathers of global authority from time to time with his own single-minded and often quirky actions and policies but the modern Boks themselves, under the pair’s tutelage, are increasingly turning toward squeaky clean for avoidance of yellow or red cards.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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