{"id":179798,"date":"2025-10-05T03:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179798\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T03:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T03:53:09","slug":"rassie-erasmus-agrees-with-rugby-world-that-lucky-bok-got-away-with-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179798\/","title":{"rendered":"Rassie Erasmus agrees with rugby world that ‘lucky’ Bok got away with one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rassie Erasmus has labelled his centre Canan Moodie<\/a> \u201clucky\u201d following his knock-on in the first half of South Africa\u2019s 29-27 victory over Argentina<\/a> at Twickenham\u2019s Allianz Stadium on Saturday. <\/p>\n

Moodie, who had already received a yellow card for a high tackle just minutes into the match, flew out the line later in the first half and knocked the ball on. The infringement, however, was only deemed to be accidental, rather than deliberate, although the 22-year-old barely came close to claiming the ball. <\/p>\n

After the match, where the Springboks retained the Rugby Championship<\/a> on points difference, Erasmus conceded that if he were his counterpart, Felipe Contepomi<\/a>, he would have deemed the knock-on worthy of another yellow, something that many online did. <\/p>\n

To add insult to injury, what could have been a yellow card was only a scrum, which, in the context of the match, was a dangerous place to be for the Pumas. <\/p>\n

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This was all part of a performance the head coach was not overly pleased with, as the Boks, who trailed 13-10 at the break, looked as though they were about to pull away in the second half only to let the Pumas<\/a> back into the match with some sloppy play. <\/p>\n

Then again, he said \u201cyou\u2019d rather learn while you\u2019re winning than while you\u2019re losing.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAt half time, you could see the guys were a little bit tired, Argentina came out really playing well and loosening the game up,\u201d Erasmus said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe missed a few tackles, and the yellow card. Canan was lucky with the one that he tapped back, it was almost two yellow cards there. If I was Felipe, I would have said one was maybe a red card and the one he was trying to reach might have been more than a yellow. I\u2019m not blaming the referee, I\u2019m just saying it was close calls that could have changed the game even more. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe always knew that Argentina have got massive fight in them. They take you to the gutters and we had to swim there in the gutters with them. I know they scored a try at the end, but when Manie didn\u2019t kick the ball out, we were going for our third try (more than Argentina), then we would have won the Championship without net points. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re proud that we did beat New Zealand<\/a> there, who were our rivals at the end. Overall, happy with win but definitely not satisfied with our performance, but you\u2019d rather learn while you\u2019re winning than while you\u2019re losing. So we\u2019ll take it, we\u2019re top of the World Rugby log now, but we\u2019re under no illusions how tough the end of year tour will be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rassie Erasmus has labelled his centre Canan Moodie \u201clucky\u201d following his knock-on in the first half of South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-179798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}