General Rugby Discussion 3

Christ I can’t imagine how awful that is for them.

So, Rassie Erasmus found guilty on six counts:

Murray K: Rassie Erasmus has been suspended from all rugby activities for two months. He's also suspended from all match-day activities until 30 September, 2022. He has also been warned as to his future conduct and will have to apologise to the relevant match officials.

Match-day activities include coaching, contact with match officials, and media engagement. SA Rugby has been fined £20,000. Also given warning as to future conduct and will need to offer an apology to the relevant match officials.

A snippet from a mail from Erasmus to Nic Berry, also from Murray K:

https://twitter.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/1461025231569670151/photo/1

Point 1 is a bit more serious than merely releasing it off the bat.

I think Erasmus has got off lightly.

What an absolute prick.

Of course he will. He's already flaunting the rules of the game every time SA play with his 'water carrier' antics.

All that will happen is he'll get a ticket for the game, sit in the stands as a 'fan' and spend the entire game on his phone to Nienaber.

World Rugby brought this upon themselves by turning a blind eye to his behaviour for too long.

The guy is out of control and no-one in SARU seems willing or able to bring him to heel. Quite the opposite in fact, they enable him at every chance they get and as long as the Boks keep winning, I suppose they'll continue to do so.

World Rugby have rightly come down hard on him which is good to see, but why exactly was he a snake when he was at Munster??

He's an actual journalist. Not the only one who has gone down this route either unfortunately.

As much of a dick Rassie is, this not comparable to what Richards did.

It’s worse than that though. He didn’t just criticise a ref. He targeted him both professionally and personally and set a precedence allowing others do the same even more so than they already had. The impact that would have had on the guy is pretty horrendous. And he’s in no way remorseful. He doesn’t care what damage he does to anyone’s professional or personal lives. There’s a real maliciousness to this and no sign that he isn’t more than happy to do something like that again.

I would absolutely call this worse than Bloodgate.

I always thought Nic Berry is a good ref. He obviously makes mistakes but his communication is excellent which is one of the most important parts.

He has come out of this looking very good. The statement above is excellent from him. But his statement is true in that he will only come out of this looking good for those that follow the story to the end. Even calling him Mr Erasmus throughout maintaining his professionalism while being attacked.