Nick Mallett has offered a revealing insight into the “extraordinary rugby brain” of Rassie Erasmus as South Africa prepare to kick off their Nations Championship campaign at home to England.
Mallett is the former Springboks coach who selected Erasmus for 25 of his 36 caps and appointed him captain on the one occasion he got to lead his country.
Long before Erasmus moved into coaching and became a back-to-back World Cup winner, the English-born Mallett recalls a player who was shy yet “incredibly innovative”.
“Let me tell you a story,” he says, speaking from Cape Town. “In the very last game
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