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Rassie Erasmus' Autumn Nations Series hangs in balance this weekend

Springboks director of rugby Rassie Erasmus.

South Africa’s director of rugby Rassie Erasmus will this weekend be the subject of a World Rugby misconduct hearing having criticised referee Nic Berry’s performance in an online video after July’s first Test defeat to the British and Irish Lions

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Subject to any verdict from the hearing, Erasmus will be alongside head coach Jacques Nienaber and the rest of the management for the Autumn Nations Cup matches and that will be crucial for the Springboks according to Handre Pollard, their goal kicking outside half.

Pollard helped Montpellier defeat Racing 92 in front of his fellow Springbok squad members who were watching in the stands as they prepare for the European players to join up after this weekend’s domestic fixtures. Erasmus will not be reprising his waterboy role following a change in World Rugby rules and if he avoids any action for his comments,

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Pollard said: “Rassie hasn’t been as hands on, with the World Rugby court case and all that referee stuff. But it’s going to be great to have him back, we really missed him. He’s got a funny way of getting the best out of us.”

With regular scrumhalf Faf de Klerk recovering after hip surgery Montpellier’s Cobus Reinach, who scored an amazing solo try against Racing, faces a battle for the Springbok No.9 jersey with Stormers’ Herschel Jantjies and Sharks’ Grant Williams.

Reinach, Pollard told AFP, had “played an unbelievable game, showing all the X-factor that he’s got” against Racing. He added: “We know what we’ve got in Herschel, we know what we’ve got with Cobus, and with Grant the new guy coming through. Luckily it’s not my decision to make, I’ll leave that up to the coach. We’re very blessed to have them playing scrumhalf for us.”

South Africa play Wales on 6 November, Scotland a week later before a replay of the 2019 Rugby World Cup final against England on 20 November. “We haven’t beaten Wales in a very long time in Cardiff, so it’s going to be one of our big objectives,” said Pollard. “Scotland are always a difficult side to play. We want three out of three, that would be perfect. I really can’t wait to get stuck in.”

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Easy_Duzz-it 29 minutes ago
Are the All Blacks doomed to a 70% flatline?

The world never caught up the All Blacks just went backwards . After 2015 they had a plan to build the team around 2 players . Sam Cane and Beauden Barrett , Cane was hailed as the next Mccaw and Barrett the next carter . Unfortunately Cane sustained too many injures and Barrett despite being a great ball runner didn't have a high enough conversion rate or the game management skills to control the team and the game . Then to make matters worst , the selections were so bad year after year the forward pack became shockingly weak .

New Zealand had so much talent wasted betwen 2016 - 2023 . Laumape , elliot dixon , ben tamefuna , pita gus , ben lam , vaea fifita and so many other in form players that never got a look or the time to develop into great All Blacks .


Then you have the dual playmaker system that never worked , but they kept using it . why ? cause some men cant admit when they're wrong . thats the All Blacks between 2016-2023 . wrong coaches with the wrong vision , going in the wrong direction . now it appears the world caught up . but like I said the world never caught up . then you add the obvious flawed referee calls that happen to go against us more often then for us now . the worst of which that never gets called is when the opposition use rush defence but have players offside . this has been going for years , but who cares ? .


anyway its almost 10 and i need to get some shut eye .

Go the might All Blacks !!!!

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