Erasmus admits resourceful Ireland 'can't be run over' in Dublin

In Dublin

SA Rugby director of rugby Rassie Erasmus admitted that Ireland won't be a team that will be run over and will require shrewd rugby to be beaten when they meet at the Aviva Stadium on Saturday night.

The clash between the sides will be the first since the 11 November 2017 meeting where Ireland, then coached by Joe Schmidt, crushed the Springboks 38-3.

That Test was the beginning of the end for then Springbok coach Allister Coetzee, but Jacques Nienaber's side has 10 survivors from that excoriating experience.

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Ireland goes in on the back of beating New Zealand 2-1 in a Test series where they played a brand of rugby that had the rugby world on edge.

Erasmus, who faced the media for the first time in a Test match-week since his ban for his Nic Berry video elapsed, said they need to have special plans for the Irish.

"We've got certain strengths that we think will be good for this game, but they're not a team that you can just run over," Erasmus said.

15 Cheslin Kolbe, 14 Kurt-Lee Arendse, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Makazole Mapimpi, 10 Damian Willemse, 9 Jaden Hendrikse, 8 Jasper Wiese, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Siya Kolisi (captain), 5 Lood de Jager, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Steven Kitshoff

Substitutes: 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Ox Nche, 18 Vincent Koch, 19 Franco Mostert, 20 Deon Fourie, 21 Kwagga Smith, 22 Faf de Klerk, 23 Willie le Roux

"We have to have special plans to outsmart them because their coach Andy Farrell is a very good coach and one of the toughest rugby league guys.

"We have to bring some technical smarts into the game. I can't say where we need to be smart, but we need to be smart."

With a centurion in flyhalf Johnny Sexton and a set of