Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus lauds series win, laments last encounter
Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus praised his side’s Test series performance against England Saturday but said the team were "terrible" in their 25-10 defeat by the tourists in the third encounter. "We were terrible today, in my opinion," he told journalists after the match at Cape Town’s Newlands stadium. "It is nicer to learn out of winning … it’s not nice learning when you’re losing." Erasmus accepted he "took a few gambles today" and said he was "overall very disappointed about those things we could control that we didn’t". Siya Kolisi, who became South Africa’s first ever black Test captain during the England tour, said that discipline had been a problem.
"We let ourselves down in that," he said. "We could have controlled the outcome of this game today." "We were working really hard together as a team. Everybody was focussed but England were really smart, they broke everything down and we just played into that trap." Kolisi added that "we knew what was coming our way and we...
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