Rassie Erasmus has called out the decision to allow Mack Hansen’s try stand as Ireland overcame South Africa in Dublin on Saturday.
The try came from a turnover with props Andrew Porter and Finlay Bealham exchanging a quick pass, but the former’s pass to the latter has proven to be forward.
Bealham was standing in front of Porter when the pass was thrown, which is a pretty good indication of the direction of the pass. However, nothing was checked by the TMO on the day.
Tweeting a video of the Mack Hansen try, Erasmus tweeted: “Tough test match, thanks for all the support from, also thanks to the Ireland supporters at the Aviva, you definetly understand the game and its great to play in an atmosphere like yesterday ! Surely was a game of big battles,but small margins,”
Reacting to Erasmus’ tweet, one Springbok fan wrote: “Tend to the garden you can touch. Our forward play has regressed, O’Connell is now the third forwards coach this season who has nullified our pack,”
“Holy smokes, you are right. That’s a clear neck roll on Sheehan. How did they miss that. Shocker,” commented an Ireland fan.
Another South Africa supporter commented: “Rassie, maybe blame selections, impotent game-plan, lack of attack coaching as the reasons for losing half of the games this year…such an amazing pool of players to choose from so these losses are on the coaching team and nothing else,”
“Erasmus being a bad loser again. Bitter as always,” commented another Twitter user.
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