Autumn Internationals 2022

That's completely short-sighted. His behaviour could potentially impact referees currently in the game, or considering going into it. Without refs, we have no game. He needs to stop doing it, and the IRB need to impose whatever penalties are required for this to happen.

Rassie has his fans convinced that there is now a global conspiracy against the team anyway.

So, not a double movement then. Great awareness by the French player and by Barnes to spot it.

Maybe he should focus more on coaching his players rather than playing mind games as their record hasn’t been very impressive over the past few years despite having lots of genuine world class players.

Seems to be a bit of disharmony among their fan base over the lack of good rugby they play too. Not sure if the goodwill will extend if he doesn’t get past a quarter against France or NZ next year.

Well it workED. Up to recently.

He's now at risk of sabotaging SAs chances of retaining their WC title by sticking to his rote approach to the game and to the rote responses to losses.

If he continues with these tactics, SA will not win the WC in France imo.

As has been said, all evidence points towards him not being that nice a guy, and a bloody sore loser.

Hard to find any sympathy tbh.

Personally hope he reaps what he sows.

Let's go Scotland!!!!

Yeah, he has a process for communicating with refs for post game analysis and clarification, going on twitter and jumping into the news cycle dissing the ref is a new low in rugby, and its something I'd hate to see normalized. Lots of coaches deflect attention from players with all sorts of mind games, EJ & Gats are past masters and ROJ has some talent at it, but that's very different from distracting from poor results by trashing refs.

All that said, something is going to have to be done about the breakdown, it's actually getting more dangerous.

https://vine.co/v/eUXxn20mKZW/embed/simple

Of course u would be,just like u all still moan about NZ 05 and Henry hand ball.

If Ireland had been at the wrong end of those calls yesterday we would be giving out yards about it all.

Maybe, but the point is that the coach of the national team should probably be carrying himself slightly differently than random internet commenters

As I said, it's a classic Trump tactic, create enough noise and swirl and people get confused about what's really important, and they get angry, and that won't end well.

And like Trump, no matter how much of a snake he turns out to be, you'll have people defending him to the hilt because he's THEIR snake.

France proving they’ll be a huge threat at the 6 nations and World Cup next year by getting over the line last night. They’re not softies, they’re not like South Africa who go away.

I agree