A social media publish by the Boks boss signifies a menace made in direction of the Bok No 9.
Springbok scrumhalf Cobus Reinach has been the goal of a loss of life menace following the staff’s Rugby World Cup win towards France in Paris final Sunday.
According to Springboks director of rugby Rassie Erasmus, the No 9 was referred to as “Dirty son of a bitch” and threatened with homicide when the returns to Montpellier, his membership, after the World Cup.
The Boks beat France in an exciting quarter-final match 29-28 to advance to the semi-finals the place they are going to face England this weekend. Reinach, as he did within the last-eight match, will once more be within the No 9 jersey.
See the social media publish by Erasmus right here:
A translated publish printed by Erasmus on X (Twitter) reads: “Dirty son of a bitch I hope that when you return to Montpellier you get murdered by French people on the ground gang of thieves easy to win a title by cheating.”
Erasmus writes, amongst different issues in response, in his publish: “Its not nice and upsets a mom and dad to see things like that said about their boy.”
The 33-year-old scrumhalf joined Montpellier in France in 2020 after beforehand enjoying for Northampton Saints in England, between 2017 and 2020. He has thus far featured for Montpellier in over 60 matches.
Reinach additionally performed for the Sharks in South Africa.
The Boks play England within the semi-finals on the World Cup on Saturday at 9pm. In the opposite semi-final, New Zealand and Argentina meet on Friday, at 9pm.
Meanwhile, in the identical social media publish, Erasmus refutes saying Ireland and France can nonetheless make it to the “finals”, by buying tickets to the matches, following their exits from the event final weekend.
“This is obviously not true,” says Erasmus.
