{"id":177472,"date":"2025-09-29T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:02:11","slug":"rassie-erasmus-forced-into-emotional-siya-kolisi-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177472\/","title":{"rendered":"Rassie Erasmus forced into ’emotional’ Siya Kolisi decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Springbok head coach Rassie Erasmus<\/a> admits he faces an \u201cemotional decision\u201d over where Siya Kolisi<\/a> will bring up his 100th Test cap.<\/p>\n

Kolisi, who reached 97 caps in South Africa\u2019s win over Argentina<\/a> in Durban, is set to become the next Bok centurion following Eben Etzebeth<\/a> in 2022 and Willie le Roux earlier this year. Damian de Allende<\/a> and Pieter-Steph du Toit<\/a> are also closing in on the landmark, both currently sitting on 92 appearances.<\/p>\n

If selected, Kolisi will move to 98 against Argentina in London before South Africa\u2019s end-of-year tour which features Tests against Japan, France, Italy, Ireland<\/a> and Wales.<\/p>\n

Erasmus admitted the significance of Kolisi\u2019s milestone but stressed that sentiment cannot be allowed to undermine results.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many emotional decisions one has to make,\u201d Erasmus said. \u201cWe are tight and very good friends, and there\u2019s a mutual belief in each other.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

Rugby Championship<\/p>\n

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Argentina <\/p>\n

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South Africa <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have [Makazole] Mapimpi, who is on 47 [Test caps], and we want to get him to 50 Tests, and Siya [Kolisi] has 97 caps. You can\u2019t always plan where players will earn their 100th Test cap.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you start thinking too much about it, that\u2019s when you start risking losing Tests sometimes. Whether he does it against France<\/a> or wherever it may be, we will celebrate it there when it happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erasmus made it clear that Kolisi is not the only one the management are monitoring for personal milestones.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs mentioned, we want to get Makazole Mapimpi<\/a> to his milestone. And we don\u2019t forget players such as Jaden and Jordan [Hendrikse], Elrich [Louw], Ben-Jason [Dixon], [Ntuthuko] Mchunu, Gerhard Steenekamp<\/a> and Salmaan Moerat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen there\u2019s also guys like Kurt-Lee [Arendse], Edwill [Van der Merwe] and [Aphelele] Fassi. There are plenty of other players who have played for us [who could be back in the mix]. We try to work it out as best as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re in a position after this game [Argentina] where we get France, Ireland and Japan<\/a> to plan for Siya\u2019s centurion match. So he will have to take it as it comes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Springbok head coach Rassie Erasmus admits he faces an \u201cemotional decision\u201d over where Siya Kolisi will bring up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-177472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}