Springboks director of rugby, Rassie Erasmus has lobbed a couple of verbal grenades at Ireland and their World Cup record.
Ireland, of course, have never managed to get beyond the World Cup quarter finals and it is a spectre that hangs over the side every four years. It will remain so until Ireland break through that particular barrier.
"A few of my friends said that Ireland is our bogey team, but the World Cup is Ireland’s bogey competition."Erasmus then went on to speak about how his side had created history, in 2019, by losing their opening pool match and going on to win the competition. He noted that New Zealand, who lost against France in their opening match at this tournament, will be looking to emulate that Springbok achievement.
On how he and Jacques Nienaber might split the South Africa replacements bench, in terms of forwards and backs, he said,"I don't think we can go 8:0 [forwards:backs], that is a bit extreme. But seven-one is definitely an option...
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