{"id":6595,"date":"2025-07-19T19:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6595\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:19:09","slug":"erasmus-to-dial-down-on-experiments-for-rugby-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6595\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmus to dial down on experiments for Rugby Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erasmus said he was satisfied with the 55-10 result<\/a> but attributed a stop-start performance to having rotated the squad throughout the four-match series (including the non-Test match against Barbarians).<\/p>\n

In the three matches since the opener against the invitational team in Cape Town, the Bok selectors made 10, 15 and 16 personnel changes in successive weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re fairly happy if you look over the four games,\u201d said Erasmus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe scored close to 50 points in each match and apart from the first Italy test defended pretty well.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorgia were physical and disruptive but that\u2019s not an excuse for us making so many errors, but I guess we must understand that if we chop and change teams like we have as we\u2019re building squad depth, you\u2019ll lose rhythm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found that again in the last 20 minutes and we can be fairly happy with the scoreline although one can always do better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Springboks now have a three-week break before the opening Test in the Rugby Championship with Erasmus indicating selection would be more consistent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll name 36 guys on Tuesday for the Australia series and within that squad there\u2019ll be one or two guys that we experiment with, but the bulk of that squad will be experienced players who are suited to the way we want to play,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nice thing is that we\u2019ve got a group of 48 players or so that we\u2019ve used this year and there\u2019s quite a couple that we\u2019d also like to give opportunities to like Jaden (Hendrikse), Jordan (Hendrikse), Quan Horn, Renzo (du Plessis).<\/p>\n

\u201cBut this was a series where we wanted to experiment a little bit so getting the scorelines we did is pretty satisfying. But the Rugby Championship is definitely a step up.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the Boks\u2019 second successive victory by a margin of 45 points \u2013 following the previous week\u2019s 45-0 win over Italy \u2013 and took the try tally to 22 in the three Castle Lager Incoming Series Tests with just four conceded.<\/p>\n

Starting flyhalf Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu missed four conversions from five attempts but Erasmus revealed that the player suffered a hip pointer injury in the warm-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe weren\u2019t quite sure if we should push him through the game, but he wanted to play but that\u2019s not an excuse for the way he kicked at poles,\u201d the Bok coach said. \u201cHe ran it out and we like guys that try things and not just play safe and he\u2019s certainly not of the guys that made the most errors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Springboks return to action on 16 August at Ellis Park when they meet Australia in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erasmus said he was satisfied with the 55-10 result but attributed a stop-start performance to having rotated the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-6595","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\/6595","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=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}