As South Africa prepared to face hosts Japan in a 2019 Rugby World Cup quarter-final, coach Rassie Erasmus said: "They want to take us to the dance floor and we want to take them to the gutters."

The astute tactician was referring to the free-flowing, ball-in-hand style of the Brave Blossoms and the subdue-and-suffocate methods favoured by the Springboks.