Conor Murray recalls Munster rebukes from ‘bad cop’ Rassie Erasmus

Rassie provided the tough love in the Erasmus/Nienaber relationship, says Conor Murray 

Conor Murray during a Lions gym session. Picture: INPHO/Billy Stickland

Rassie Erasmus may have a higher profile on Twitter these days than he did when he was the Munster boss but Conor Murray imagines he and Jacques Nienaber are still playing the bad cop-good cop routine in the South Africa camp.

Murray worked with the Springbok coaching duo when Erasmus was Munster’s director of rugby and Nienaber the defence coach between the summer of 2016 and their exit to return home 17 months into their three-year deals in November 2017.