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Rassie Erasmus has found an attack coach to replace Swys de Bruin at the Springboks

Former Munster player and coach Felix Jones has joined the Springboks. (Photo by Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)

With the Springboks attack coach, Swys de Bruin, withdrawing from the South African management team just weeks before the World Cup is due to kick off, Rassie Erasmus has been on the lookout for a new man to charge of the side’s offence.

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It appears that 15-cap Irish fullback Felix Jones could now link up with the Springboks squad in the coming days.

Jones was shoulder-tapped by Erasmus last year but was contracted to Pro14 side Munster at the time, preventing the appointment. Jones has now parted ways with the Irish province is theoretically available to join South Africa immediately. Erasmus and Jones previously teamed up as coaches for Munster.

The former Irish representative had his playing years cut short after suffering a major neck injury in 2015. By then he’d managed to clock up over a dozen tests for Ireland as well as almost a century of matches for Munster.

As well as coaching Munster, the 32-year-old has previously worked with Joe Schmidt for the national side.

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JW 1 hour ago
Why England's defence of the realm has crumbled without Felix Jones

This piece is nothing more than the result of revisionist fancy of Northern Hemisphere rugby fans. Seeing what they want to see, helped but some surprisingly good results and a desire to get excited about doing something well.


I went back through the 6N highlights and sure enough in every English win I remembered seeing these exact holes on the inside, that are supposedly the fallout out of a Felix Jones system breaking down in the hands of some replacement. Every time the commentators mentioned England being targeted up the seam/around the ruck or whatever. Each game had a try scored on the inside of the blitz, no doubt it was a theme throughout all of their games. Will Jordan specifically says that Holland had design that move to target space he saw during their home series win.


Well I'm here to tell you they were the same holes in a Felix Jones system being built as well. This woe is now sentiment has got to stop. The game is on a high, these games have been fantastic! It is Englands attack that has seen their stocks increase this year, and no doubt that is what SB told him was the teams priority. Or it's simply science, with Englands elite players having worked towards a new player welfare and management system, as part of new partnership with the ERU, that's dictating what the players can and can't put their bodies through.


The only bit of truth in this article is that Felix is not there to work on fixing his defence. England threw away another good chance of winning in the weekend when they froze all enterprise under pressure when no longer playing attacking footy for the second half. That mindset helped (or not helped if you like) of course by all this knee jerk, red brained criticism.

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