"I know it wasn’t a wonderful performance, but it was a good one and I think the first 50-pointer of the World Cup," Erasmus told reporters. "Now it is on to Italy, which is almost like a playoff game and we need to win it." He added that the Namibia game will have made his fringe players ‘battle-ready’ should any be called in to face Italy because of injury. "Ten or 15 years ago, Namibia might have got 100 points (scored against them) in the World Cup, there were a lot of big scores," he said. "Japan conceded 100 points (145-17 versus New Zealand) in the 1995 World Cup, so there is a definite improvement.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 28, 2019 19:52 UTC