Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus said that a two-nil series win over Ireland would be special for the entire country, ahead of the second and final Test between the top two sides in the world at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday.
The current Bok coaching and playing group finally broke their Irish hoodoo in Pretoria over the past weekend, when they walked away with a 27-20 win, their first over them since they came together back in 2018.
At the Bok team announcement presser on Tuesday afternoon, Erasmus was quizzed on whether it would be a special moment for him to get a series win over Ireland, but responded that it was bigger than just him.
Since being together as a group we lost to them in close games, two of them being away and once at the World Cup. So they clearly had our number. And this past weekend if they had kept the ball alive in the last play it could have been a draw, explained Erasmus.
When we play against the All Blacks or Wales it is nice to win. But with Ireland they have certainly been peaking in recent years. They have ruled the Six Nations and have been developing world class players constantly.
