Rassie Erasmus discusses changing style, relationships with referees, and managing his squad.
Murray Kinsella Reports from Paris AFTER THE BATTLE, the beers. Late last night at Stade de France, Fabien Galthié joined Rassie Erasmus and his Springboks team for a post-match drink.
Erasmus and Jacques Nienaber’s plans worked in Paris last night. Their intriguing matchday 23 selection proved to be cleverly constructed and they scored four tries to France’s three, while also managing the sin-bin period for Eben Etzebeth as well as they could have hoped for. That les Bleus only scored three points in that window was key.
“I tweeted a few tweets and a lot of people said it was controversial but I can remember my caption there was ‘We will have to adapt and make things clearer for referees, we can’t just rely on mauling, scrumming and close-contact work where it is very difficult for the referee to make the correct decision.’ Because it’s very dynamic and it’s busy and there’s a little bit of grey areas there.
“As a team, we don’t want to be this wonderful playing rugby team that the whole world loves, but we do want to score tries.” “Since we’ve changed our way, no matter if we are correct and the referees are wrong, respect must always be shown,” said Erasmus. As The Boks now look towards their clash with England this Saturday in the semi-finals, Erasmus is happy with the condition of his squad.The South Africans opted to rotate their team during the World Cup pool stages, in contrast to a team like Ireland, who went nearly full-strength throughout their time in the competition.
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