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Rassie Erasmus pinpoints what made the difference in tight Bok win
By Josh Raisey at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham
South Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus believes his side’s experience is what made the difference as South Africa were able to hold on to a 20-29 win over England at Twickenham’s Allianz Stadium.
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In a match where the lead changed hands on a number of occasions, the world champions came out on the right side of the scoreline as they so often do. But Erasmus’ outfit found themselves under a lot of pressure in the final quarter of the match with prop Gerhard Steenekamp in the sin bin.
Despite waves of English attack in South Africa’s half, The Rugby Championship winners were able to repel Steve Borthwick’s side with various players coming to the fore with big tackles and turnovers to keep England scoreless in the final quarter.
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In a match he described as “competitive as hell,” Erasmus feels that it was the fact that this Springboks outfit have found themselves in similar positions in the past which helped them get over the line in the end.
This experience is what allowed the players to keep “calm heads” in the closing stages to maintain their status as the number one side in the world.
“I definitely think it’s experience,” Erasmus said when analysing how the Boks were able to close out the match. “I think the team that we put out there has played together a lot in important games and most of them played in the last match against Argentina for The Rugby Championship.
“Getting cards is not something that we’re proud of, but hanging in there while we’ve got a card, that definitely takes some character and planning from the other coaches and the guys running the specific areas- defence, lineout, Vincent [Koch] going to loosehead, without him going to loosehead we would have gone to uncontested scrums which would have meant we would go to 13 men. So then we would have struggled to keep them out as they were really playing well.
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“I do think calm heads, which weren’t always in the coaches’ box, but the players on the field were pretty much cool, calm and handled it with experience.”
Despite the result, Erasmus was not overly pleased with the reigning World Cup winners’ display, but knows a nine-point victory at the Allianz Stadium is not to be sniffed at.
“Last week we had a good winning margin, this game, again, does the score really reflect how close the game was?” he said.
“It was a one-try game, penalty kicks here and there.
“Overall, when you play at Twickenham and say you’re not happy with the performance and beat them by nine points, we’re arrogant. It wasn’t fantastic. But we’re content.”
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Good girl. Higher now.
Fish, barrel.
Harder, higher. It's too easy owning you.
Oh dear, been kipping under your rock again? Never mind, maybe you can rather spend some more time in the barrel with your false teeth out.
Puerile.
Even more lame. Harder. Higher.
Dang, naaitril, has your vocab been reduced even further!?
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Nigella you big trannie jump higher wnak harder - Boks the greatest you wit kant
Childish.
Lame.
Oh, you still around? Been let out of the nuthouse after a week's treatment? You really need to wake up maat. Anyway, there's even more fish waiting to be shot in the barrels:
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Practicing your cheers for Saturday afternoon on the backseat of mommy's taxi?
Higher, harder.
Niaahol, why aren't you whining about the world player in if the year awards, try harder jump high wnaker
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Owned and schooled you ages ago, with ease I must add. Back to your childish emojis I see. Oh dear, little girl, that's just so sad.
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Lame, little girl. Try harder.
Tight match a few points:
-England are badly missing Felix Jones. This one was very winnable. Tactics were clueless at the end
-Andrew Brace chickened out of a yellow for SA at the end. SA brought down a driving Maul approaching the SA line. That is a yellow. No ifs no buts. He said to SA "Dont think I wont give you a yellow just because youve a man already in the bin". But that's EXACTLY what you were doing Bracey. England 9point deficit versus 13 and a penalty deep in the SA 22 is a likely winning position. Brace didn't give a yellow because SA already had a man in the bin.
-England are not bad but they need an expert with the analytical capabilities of a Felix Jones.
And Itoje got away with a neck roll?
Block Nigel like I have, makes for a more pleasant experience.
Brace was, as expected, SA's Man of the Match (by some considerable distance if international reports and articles are considered).
Funny but sad how this poor soul runs out of people to stalk and harass as they all block him, and then changes his name so they'll talk to him again.
That time of the month for you. NE? .. it must be a dark place living in your skin🤣🤣🤣... we love your hatred ... makes us so much more determined to rub it in... in your heeaaad in your heeeaad...
Niaaaahol is arsehole of the century us usual ..try harder jump higher
It the result of Rassie's charm offensive. Everybody loves the Boks they love the Bomb Squad they love the big ugly strong forwards and most of all they love Rassie.
🤣🤣🤣 The broken record keeps spinning!