Another of Erasmus’ claims proven misleading

‘ Erasmus claimed the video was always meant to just be seen by himself, referee Nic Berry, Springboks head coach Jacques Nienaber, Joe Schmidt (Rugby and High Performance Director, World Rugby), Joël Jutge (Head of Match Officials, World Rugby) and Jurie Roux (SARU chief executive).

Ultimately, the video was uploaded to Vimeo, not set as private and password protected. It was also sent to the entire Springboks playing squad via WhatsApp.

As the video, which featured Erasmus highlighting what he believed to be 24 serious errors made by Berry and his match officials, was not private, the link could be viewed by anyone that had it. It was only a matter of time, World Rugby concluded, before the video would spread widely. That us exactly what happened.’

And then there’s this. He leaked the video the day after he had his response from Berry. What a prat!

That video was made by the Springboks director of rugby on July 27, seemingly the day after he had received a clip by clip response from Berry on the pieces of the play the South African boss wanted to be reviewed.  

In the email sent from Berry on July 26 at 23:22 to Erasmus, which also copied in World Rugby referees boss Joel Jutge and Springboks assistant coach Felix Jones, the referee agreed with the Springboks director regarding 17 of the 36 clips.