Rassie Erasmus has clapped back at Matt Williams following another wild and inappropriate hot take about the Springboks’ bomb squad and Steven Kitshoff.
Williams has been one of the fiercest critics of the Springboks’ Bomb Squad tactic — both the 6/2 and 7/1 bench splits — from the outset; and he has now taken his criticism to another, more derogatory, level.
The former coach turned pundit has come out and egregiously said that Kitshoff’s career-ending neck injury, which he suffered in training with the Stormers, is a direct result of Rassie Erasmus’ Bomb Squad tactic and intensive scrummaging.
“We know about brain injuries, what is it doing for brain injuries by bringing fresh guys off the bench? What’s it doing to the guys spines when it’s being compacted unbelievably for 80 minutes?” he stated.
“What about Kitshoff, what happened to his spine in South Africa? Do we know if that is as a result of the scrummaging they are put through?”
Rassie did not take kindly to Williams’ claims, which amounts to defamation, and took to social media to voice his disagreement.
Erasmus’ posted a screenshot of Williams’ quotes with the caption: “Nee wat [no, what] !! How can a 6/2 or 7/1 split contribute to Kitchie’s injury? “Do we know” No you dont.”
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