Rassie Erasmus names 10 uncapped players for latest 40-man Bok camp

Hardly! The way the coaching team collect and analyse data, the size is irrelevant.

Certainly speaks well, would love to see him make that step up with the big boys.

Still remains to be seen whether or not he can hack it at domestic level. For captain going forward after Kolisi its anybodies guess what will happen. May just be SFM

Get with the program. Ever heard of technology like Zoom. The overseas players join a virtual alignment camp. The camps are much about sharing strategy as expectations etc, than physical prep. Most of the overseas players are seasoned Boks, so know the expectations and standards.

Yeah not normally as stark was it was pre and post covid, where it was only trials (derbies) and the other teams were basically a rest week. This year they have been tested by the aussies even more and it’s requiring a lot more consistency out of them. But year, thats good in another way too (I don’t think the debries are as brutal as we result).

I liked the way Rassie does things, it’s got a proper framework around bring these guys in, were as the ABs just quitely ask players to join the team for a week or two as they go through the country. Theres no where near as much recognition for the same type of player selected here, and probably not as good an experience for the ABs selections either.

If SA Rugby had reapointed Jake White post 2007 then the 2015 All Blacks would never have been as dominant, they would have been talking about the the Jake White era instead.

Rassie is a genius no doubt! If we had this conversation in 2021 I would agree.

Currently we have great coaches in Franco Smith and van Graan who can continue the work started by Rassie. The value of Rassie is in the structure he has implemented to identify talent from schools level and finding ways to keep them in the pathways and monitoring their progress. They have Duanne Vermeulen as mobi unit on the road attending clinics at clubs and schools.

Would the 2015 ABs have been in the conversation with the 2015 ABs without the influence of Henry/Hansen?

I doubt it.

Depends what you mean by without Rassie. Sure if he gets in the road of a Bok scrum at training and thats the end of him, it might fall apart, but if you’re planning for the worst, he’s always going to be there in some sort of advisory role at least, and I’d think that would be enough.

I can’t see him taking up a full time gig elsewhere that takes him completely out of the game in SA, unless he gets something big like the job to lead the All Blacks.

I think he could sit back with his popcorn and feet up and they would still come through.

Been watching a bit too much Avengers and Game of Thrones Wayneo!

Wow,want some KY and tissue?

What a load of nonsense, you obviously have no clue how many players he caped or the age profile of any of the players if you think his squad is old.

2018 (22 Debutants)

2019 (2 Debutants)

2021 (9 Debutants)

2022 (7 Debutants)

2023 (2 Debutants)

2024 (7 Debutants)

2025 (7 Debutants)

If you bothered to take a closer look you would have noticed that since Rassie came in 31 older players have been rotated out or retired and replaced by younger players

If you review the u20 Rugby Championship, which of the players in the team do you feel is ready to be drafted in, even just to get a feel of the AB setup, like Rassie does. They had an up and down tournament. They upped ante in their last match, but even then the u20 Boks had a good lead and had already secured the title by half time. Not saying they took the foot off, but it is possible.

Personaly I think they should have a Junior ABs team, your under 23’s with maybe a few recent ABs 25/26 etc.

I fully agree, AB’s need to get rid of the grandfathers like Beauden Barrett, Richie Mo’unga, Shannon Frizell and Brodie Retallick etc.

Nothing like throwing fresh 20 year old’s into the Ellis Park meat grinder

To be fair, he has reformed and now takes a much more measured approach yo sorting out issues he is unhappy with.

In his defence WR contributed to Rassiegate, with their inept handling of coaches requests for clarity, and let us not forget where the leak of the video originated! In Australia, with an Australian official at the centre of it.

Bigger is not necessarily better. You only need 30 odd……..

I’m sure he’s tracking more. Galthie mentioned they follow 100 players for France overall for example.