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Rassie’s “four phases of Springbok”

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World Cup Winning Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus, on his newly launched Twitter profile, released a host of behind-the-scenes videos of various talks with the team. Among these videos was a two part series where he talks about the cycle of a Springbok player’s psyche, from desperation to entitlement.

Might be interesting to some of you that there is more to team selection to just what you do on the field (2 videos) pic.twitter.com/dqtSdmVPKC

— Johan Erasmus (@RassieRugby) February 10, 2020

As I found out the hard way (entitled) pic.twitter.com/A0bRyj0W6P

— Johan Erasmus (@RassieRugby) February 10, 2020

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