Steve Hansen and Heyneke Meyer unlikely beer buddies

There’s something deliciously gruff about Steve Hansen and something gloriously barmy about Heyneke Meyer. Talk about being as dry as chalk and as mad as cheese.

To Hansen, everything is gushingly “amazing” and “unbelievable”.

In his Springboks’ coaching box, Meyer is so jack-in-the-box animated that he dies a million deaths in there until he can emerge victorious and, like last week, bury his tearful face into his assistant’s chest before emerging to tell the world he just wants to kiss his captain Fourie du Preez.