RUCK N ROLL
GAVIN RICH: Erasmus and Cheika get testy with the media after Test
There wasn’t much difference in the post-match demeanour of the coaches involved in the Rugby Championship Test in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. Both SA’s Rassie Erasmus and Australia’s Michael Cheika looked like men feeling the pressure when they faced the media. Both showed signs of irritation. For Cheika, who has just two wins to balance against eight defeats from his last 10 Tests, the flash of frustration came when he was asked what the latest defeat might mean for his future. "You keep asking the same question every week and I am not changing what I say," he said. "The tough situations come and then they go away and the tough people stay." Though successive wins over New Zealand and Australia should have given him breathing space, it looks like Erasmus will have to dig deep off the field in the same way that his players have on it and be one of those tough people. The question that bugged him focused on the substitutions. Why did Elton Jantjies and Damian Willemse not get onto t...
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