Rassie Erasmus: ‘Beating All Blacks the perfect way to honour Axel’

Munster Director of Rugby Rassie Erasmus yesterday paid tribute to Joe Schmidt’s Ireland following their sensational victory over the All Blacks in Chicago on Saturday night.

And Erasmus admitted that the result was the perfect way to honour the memory of Anthony Foley who was remembered by the players, who stood in the shape of the figure eight, when facing the Haka.

“I know how much time Joe had with the team and it wasn’t a lot”, he said. “To get them to perform like that against a New Zealand team fresh out of a Rugby Championship was a proper performance, a proper result. The 8 for Axel was beautiful, wonderful.