Bok coach confident of reaching 50% transformation target
Goal is higher in 2019 and being a World Cup year‚ the pressure on the coach and team is higher too
Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus admitted to falling short of his 45% transformation target in 2018‚ but even so‚ is not daunted about reaching the 50% mark this season. Erasmus was certainly the most progressive Bok coach of the modern era‚ by choosing 20 black players out of the 50 he used in Tests in 2018. The transformation criteria though‚ are not that straightforward because it is a percentage weighted over the full year and not a target for every game. Even so‚ Erasmus fell just short despite doing far more than all of his predecessors. But he did make Siya Kolisi the first black Springbok Test captain‚ a remarkable statement of intent regarding transformation. The target is higher in 2019 and being a World Cup year‚ the pressure on the coach and team is also higher. It’s something Erasmus is embracing. “It’s so nice that we can speak about transformation openly without talking around it‚” he said. “Last year I thought we did better in transformation and I think there were some...
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