Einstein can help Boks

10 October 2016 - 09:25
By Prof Ross Tucker

The first thing that All Blacks rugby captain Kieran Read said after Saturday's Springbok demolition was that the Boks should be commended for coming out to "fight". His coach Steve Hansen said similar things in the build-up (when asked what he expected from the Boks) and after the match. So, too, did England coach Eddie Jones fire the first salvo in his psychological war when he referred to the Boks as "bullies", months before the November Test at Twickenham.

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