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SA Rugby statement: Rassie Erasmus Twitter account
By Ian Cameron
SA Rugby have issued a statement confirming that Springboks director of rugby Rassie Erasmus is not in control of his Twitter account.
The Twitter account retweeted a pornographic video on Friday, before then issuing several Tweets purporting to be from Erasmus himself, claiming the account had been hacked.
The fresh statement suggests that the account is still no longer in his control and that all Tweets since Friday were published by the hacker.
A statement reads: "Rassie Erasmus, SA Rugby’s Director of Rugby, has confirmed that his Twitter account, @RassieRugby, has been hacked and that he no longer has access to or control of the account.
"The issue has been reported to Twitter and will hopefully be resolved speedily. Any content appearing under the handle should be disregarded as being posted by a malicious hacker until further notice."
Erasmus' most recent video - presumably posted by the hackers - had suggested that the latest hack was an attempt to smear the Springboks.
The Twitter account posted a video from the Springboks documentary Two Sides, linking the lastest Twitter incident to the leaking of the infamous 62-minute long post during the British & Irish Lions tour.
“Someone is trying really hard to drag us to the gutters!,” wrote hacked Erasmus account. “Make yourself [sic] known man!! I will be more than happy to meet you there”
The latest incident comes in the wake of the ‘Jaco Johan’ affair. Erasmus retweeted a post from an anonymous user showing some “questionable calls” by the officials against the world champions.
Erasmus was then accused of being behind the Jaco Johan account, using it as a so-called 'burner account' to make points about rugby officiating while not been held to account by World Rugby.
The governing body last year gave South Africa's DoR a two-month ban for publicly criticising Australian referee Nic Berry over his performance in the first Test of the British & Irish Lions' tour.
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Agreed. Borthwick will have to write a new excuse book soon .
I have looked at the two world cup final teams from 2003 and 2020.
2003 team scored 187 tries between them in 389 caps
2020 team scored 113 tries between them in 473 caps. As you can see a huge disparity in scoring rate. Only Johnny May with 36 tries in 78 caps scored a higher amount of tries. Elliot Daly comes close but the rest are frankly very poor.
Farrell and Ford scored a pathetic 20 tries between them in a combined 210 caps.
There again , the 2003 team did have Wilko and Greenwood etc whereas 2020 team had Ford and Farrell .
So much people saying that Fords strength is of bringing others into the game .
Really. The figures totally disprove that notion .
It has been mentioned elsewhere that we have accepted mediocrity far too often and the figures would indicate that players are or have been picked far too often without performing .
Go to commentsNot disputing that NZ are ahead of Eng. Also not saying Eng are unlucky (though clearly the tone of the article is not that the ABs were unlucky but that they 'should have' won). Your team are looking great and are on the up. I just felt that Pundits have argued Eng 'should have' won the first test against the ABs, when it's more nuanced than that, and very fine margins determine results that Eng didn't get right. Same applies, therefore, to NZ and other nations. Ben Smith though doesn't seem to see it that way. To be clear: I'm not saying I agree with the 'should haves', but more that I take issue with the phrasing.
Good to see your respect for other nations is so strong! Proper rugby fan you are!!!
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