One intriguing subplot in the build-up to the Test will be the presence of former England staff members Felix Jones and Lewis in the South Africa set-up. Another Englishman, Andy Edwards, is the head of athletic performance. Lewis was England\u2019s senior analyst as recently as this year\u2019s Six Nations, but with no gardening-leave clause in his contract, Erasmus swooped to add him to the Springbok set-up. However, he pointed out that intellectual property has flown both ways between England and South Africa in recent years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout a doubt [it is an advantage],\u201d Erasmus said. \u201cIt is like when Matthew Proudfoot moved away from us in 2019 and the next year we played England. There\u2019s a guy called Byron McGuigan and he spent a whole week with us as Sale Sharks coach and I am pretty sure he has a lot of stuff. Eddie Jones moved from England to Australia and then Australia to Japan, so obviously some IP gets transferred and it is the same with Joe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always had only one analyst, but when you look at any of the tier-one nations, some have five, and I think the French have \u00a0eight guys. I know England also have a lot. We were looking for another analyst and Joe was available. Obviously we scan everywhere. Paddy [Sullivan] is an Irishman, but he worked in the French league a lot so you get some good info and some good things that they do in the league, analysis-wise. If you get a guy of his calibre available, it is just fantastic to have him here and he was available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One intriguing subplot in the build-up to the Test will be the presence of former England staff members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7166,7196,5903,222949,23451,170007,217,101,5438,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-665535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-england-rugby-union-team","tag-rassie-erasmus","tag-rugby","tag-rugby-nations-championship","tag-rugby-union","tag-south-africa-rugby-union-team","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665535","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=665535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}