{"id":179530,"date":"2025-09-30T07:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179530\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T07:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T07:48:14","slug":"rassie-erasmus-rugby-championship-warning-to-the-springboks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/179530\/","title":{"rendered":"Rassie Erasmus&#8217; Rugby Championship warning to the Springboks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rassie Erasmus is pleased with how the Springboks have built during this Rugby Championship, but has warned that they still need to complete the job this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa go into the final round of the competition at the top of the standings following their 67-30 demolition of Argentina at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It was their third victory of the tournament after they split the double-headers against the Wallabies and All Blacks one apiece.<\/p>\n<p>A bonus-point victory over Argentina at Allianz Stadium, Twickenham, this weekend will see them defend their title, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/tag\/rassie-erasmus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erasmus<\/a> expects a response from the South Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The balance Rassie seeks<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/south-africa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boks<\/a> boss is also aware of their own inconsistency as they seek to balance winning matches with their preparation for the 2027 Rugby World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus has once again rotated a lot in 2025, but it has potentially led to some disappointing results.<\/p>\n<p>There are signs that South Africa are beginning to get it right, however, following big victories over the All Blacks and Los Pumas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a perfect world, you put Jesse [Kriel] in, you put Damian Willemse at 12 and it clicks with Canan [Moodie], and you put Damian de Allende in with Canan and it clicks,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCheslin [Kolbe] goes off, Canan goes to the wing. Sacha [Feinberg-Mngomezulu] goes to full-back, Manie [Libbok] goes to 10, so what we are trying to do is build not just combinations but build understanding of how we try to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve won nothing yet in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/tournament\/rugby-championship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby Championship.<\/a> We\u2019ve won one, lost one, won one, lost one against New Zealand and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know we\u2019re ahead on the log now, but you know how tough this Argentinian mindset is, so we still have to go and win next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/2019-rugby-world-cup-winner-answers-springboks-sos-as-rassie-erasmus-forced-into-late-change-ahead-of-argentina-rematch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2019 Rugby World Cup winner answers Springboks SOS as Rassie Erasmus forced into late change ahead of Argentina rematch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Springboks rotation and consistency<\/p>\n<p>While Erasmus likes to rotate, a couple of his changes were injury-enforced, including Boan Venter\u2019s promotion to the starting line-up in place of Ox Nche and Morne van den Berg\u2019s elevation to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>The Springboks head coach was delighted with how both of them performed against Argentina, but the 52-year-old knows that consistency \u2013 both as individuals and as a team \u2013 is vital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKrappies [Van den Berg] really sped up the game when he came on. Cobus [Reinach] has done a great job in the past three games for us, but then you\u2019ve got Faf [de Klerk] still there and Grant [Williams] was injured for the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOx was injured, Boan slotted in nicely. Marco [Van Staden] slotted in nicely, Siya [Kolisi] got taken off, so what we\u2019re really trying to create is make sure not just some of our combinations work, but all of our combinations work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s starting to click because that takes time as well, just swapping in and out, but you know that can also change quickly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t get too carried away by this. We\u2019re playing at Twickenham and we have to win that game to win the Rugby Championship, otherwise it\u2019s just another Rugby Championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/rassie-erasmus-forgives-cheslin-kolbes-stupidity-after-brainfart-for-bizarre-argentina-try\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rassie Erasmus \u2018forgives\u2019 Cheslin Kolbe\u2019s \u2018stupidity\u2019 after \u2018brainfart\u2019 for bizarre Argentina try<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rassie Erasmus is pleased with how the Springboks have built during this Rugby Championship, but has warned that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[12910,64,63,818,1182,44,10531,760,17140,1183,85],"class_list":["post-179530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-argentina","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-home-page","tag-internationals","tag-news","tag-rassie-erasmus","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-championship","tag-south-africa","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179530","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=179530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}