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South Africa director of rugby Rassie Erasmus to face misconduct hearing
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<blockquote data-quote="saulan" data-source="post: 1052134" data-attributes="member: 60236"><p>Love it, no South Africans rearing their heads in this one.</p><p></p><p>Honestly, I was with Rassie until the 63 minute post. Most of those previous posts on twitter were pretty passive or subtle in what they were implying/trying to get attention on. I'm not proud of what he did, and it really cannot be justified. It's made South African rugby look bad and has just let loose our wolves of crazy internet trolls/fanatics who are looking to push a victim complex and provides more of a bad look for SA rugby supporters. Sure, maybe it impacted the way refs were thinking and they were assessing everything, but was it really necessary? The previous game was close, I don't believe this was needed to get a win. I'm proud of the win, but I couldn't really feel like we can celebrate it properly, because of how much of a mess that previous week was/embarrassed by the approach of our DoR. Did we really need all that? It has taken the shine off the game and we can't actually talk about the rugby. I watched the game in a London pub and afterwards a Lions supporter struck up a conversation that lasted about 20 seconds discussing the rugby and then for the next minute and a half I was being told repetitively how disgraceful/unnacceptable Rassie is (even after acknowledging and saying I don't agree with it) and he had no interest in actually discussing the rugby further, convo was a lost cause and took an opportunity that arised to escape as he just seemed to be getting angry.</p><p></p><p>I really hope the Springbok management just shut up until the third game is over now, don't make the mess any worse. Play to win on Saturday, but don't make the series have any worse of a bad taste than it already has.</p><p></p><p>Was there any toxicity even remotely like this in previous Lions tours?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="saulan, post: 1052134, member: 60236"] Love it, no South Africans rearing their heads in this one. Honestly, I was with Rassie until the 63 minute post. Most of those previous posts on twitter were pretty passive or subtle in what they were implying/trying to get attention on. I'm not proud of what he did, and it really cannot be justified. It's made South African rugby look bad and has just let loose our wolves of crazy internet trolls/fanatics who are looking to push a victim complex and provides more of a bad look for SA rugby supporters. Sure, maybe it impacted the way refs were thinking and they were assessing everything, but was it really necessary? The previous game was close, I don't believe this was needed to get a win. I'm proud of the win, but I couldn't really feel like we can celebrate it properly, because of how much of a mess that previous week was/embarrassed by the approach of our DoR. Did we really need all that? It has taken the shine off the game and we can't actually talk about the rugby. I watched the game in a London pub and afterwards a Lions supporter struck up a conversation that lasted about 20 seconds discussing the rugby and then for the next minute and a half I was being told repetitively how disgraceful/unnacceptable Rassie is (even after acknowledging and saying I don't agree with it) and he had no interest in actually discussing the rugby further, convo was a lost cause and took an opportunity that arised to escape as he just seemed to be getting angry. I really hope the Springbok management just shut up until the third game is over now, don't make the mess any worse. Play to win on Saturday, but don't make the series have any worse of a bad taste than it already has. Was there any toxicity even remotely like this in previous Lions tours? [/QUOTE]
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