Mick Cleary: South Africa, what the hell were you doing?

Kicks matter, no matter how you get them or earn them or manipulate the field for them. The Springboks did not fulfil this basic function on Saturday night and it cost them

PLENTY TO PONDER: South Africa’s Director of Rugby Rassie Erasmus. Pic: INPHO/Dave Winter

The Cranberries were on the money. “What’s in your head, in your head? Zombie…” 

Now, it would take a foolish man to confront the Springbok management with the notion that they didn’t know what they were doing. But, Rassie and Jacques, what the hell were you doing?