Nick Mallett's view is that the verbal sparring between Rassie Erasmus and Scott Rennie has become a sideshow that's overshadowing what should be the main event — the on-field contest in the Rugby's Greatest Rivalry series. The piece explores whether the off-the-cuff jibes serve any real strategic purpose or whether they're simply noise that distracts from the rugby.
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Mallett: The Rassie-Rennie mind games are drowning out the rugby
Mallett argues the Erasmus-Rennie back-and-forth is a distraction from the Springbok-All Black series itself — the piece weighs whether the mind games have any real strategic value.
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