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The Rassie Erasmus documentary and his advice for 'flawless people'
By Liam Heagney
Rassie Erasmus is set to return to the international stage with a bang in the coming weeks as the release of the documentary filmed over the course of the last year will coincide with the return of the South Africa director of rugby to match days with the Springboks following the expiry of his World Rugby ban.
Erasmus was banned last November by World Rugby after a disciplinary committee found that his behaviour towards match officials during the 2021 South Africa Test series against the British and Irish Lions constituted misconduct.
The six charges brought by World Rugby resulted in him being suspended with immediate effect from all rugby activities for two months and also banned from all match day activities (including coaching, contact with match officials, and media engagement) with immediate effect until September 30, 2022.
That ban has now expired and Erasmus will be involved with the Springboks on their upcoming tour, which begins against Ireland in Dublin on November 5. His new documentary will also soon be broadcast.
It was November 28, just eleven days after Erasmus lost his case against World Rugby, that he first took to Twitter to reveal he would be making a documentary. At the time he wrote, “So excited! Part of a documentary that we are working on (I do have some time at hand) with SuperSport I will be able to share my side of the story!! Thank you, SuperSport TV.”
Erasmus has now followed up on that text eleven months later, priming South African fans that the documentary will soon be broadcast and also issuing a warning for those who don’t like him. “The way I see it, there are two kinds of South Africans - the ones trying to break the country and the ones trying to build it. The official Rassie documentary is coming soon on SuperSport TV. I suggest flawless people give it a skip!”
The previous SuperSport documentary that Erasmus was involved in was the award-winning Chasing the Sun which captured the journey of the then-head coach and his South Africa team to World Cup glory in Japan in 2019.
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Go to commentsThink we have to accept we have been on the slide for a while now.Still interesting to see the repeated media pieces about the myth of the ABs slipping-I would say slipped past tense.In part don’t we have to give credit for the improvement of other nations particularly Ireland?Isnt that good for the game?Are we beginning to feel the impact of losing the Boks from Super rugby and maybe soon TRC?I would agree we are also ran right now so will be interesting to see how we progress-assuming we do!Isnt that part of sport though to be in improvement mode?Back to the stats though I think the Boks were under 60% leading into 2019?Now with the focus on the RWC does it matter so much what you are doing between tournaments?You just get through your group(remembering the ABs qualified 2nd in 2023)and then you have 3 matches to win the thing.
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