Anthony Foley's death taught Jacques Nienaber 'that you only have now'

Leinster coach Nienaber was frustrated with how an interview he gave to a South African broadcaster has been interpreted in Ireland. 

Jacques Nienaber was at Munster in 2016 when Anthony Foley died. Pic: ©INPHO/Billy Stickland

There’s an old saying that if you’re explaining you’re losing. Jacques Nienaber did a lot of explaining when speaking on Monday about a recent interview with South African TV in which he admitted to missing the Springboks and left the door open to a possible return.

It was, if nothing else, naïve given his current role with Leinster and the unfounded but stubborn theory out there that he had been dispatched to Dublin by a Machiavellian South African brains trust eager for him to soak up all that Irish IP and repatriate it before 2027.