RUCK N ROLL
GAVIN RICH: Elton Jantjies looks set to be waved goodbye in his beloved car park
If England win the Rugby World Cup in 2019, coach Eddie Jones could well feel a thank you is in order to his Springbok counterpart, Rassie Erasmus, who threw him a lifeline this past weekend. While it may have been something that could have been controlled, meaning discipline, that cost the Boks the most at a wet Newlands, Erasmus’s decision to install Elton Jantjies at flyhalf introduced an element of frustration for the hosts that would have contributed to them comprehensively losing the penalty count and the match. As England will tell you after the first two Tests, when your are on the receiving end of the penalty count, it is when your game isn’t working and the opposition are applying pressure that you tend to lose your discipline. England won the kicking game at Newlands, they had greater fluency and accuracy and Danny Cipriani controlled play a lot better than Jantjies did.But while Erasmus would probably admit he made a mistake, another scenario that could play out in Japan...
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