“Rassie Erasmus is a good case in point. He is a highly technical coach, but as his coaching career progressed, he increasingly prioritised our unique South African strengths as opposed to some of the other interesting things he initially employed at the Cheetahs. What resulted in the Springboks’ World Cup victory in 2019 was not just meticulous preparation and lengthy training camps, but a focus on those aspects of our game that make South Africans uniquely voracious – power and work ethic. Or, as Rassie said to his players: ‘Let the main thing be the main thing.”