{"id":193997,"date":"2025-11-22T07:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/193997\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:46:14","slug":"we-dont-really-see-them-as-foreigners-anymore-south-africas-irish-backroom-trio-keeping-them-top-of-the-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/193997\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We don\u2019t really see them as foreigners anymore\u2019 \u2013 South Africa\u2019s Irish backroom trio keeping them top of the pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nJerry Flannery, Felix Jones and Paddy Sullivan have become key parts of Rassie Erasmus\u2019 team\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South Africa's Irish connection: Pat Sullivan, Jerry Flannery and Felix Jones. Photo: Instagram\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/35998b0e-b028-4651-8429-55d7ca4db599.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">South Africa&#8217;s Irish connection: Pat Sullivan, Jerry Flannery and Felix Jones. Photo: Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Rassie Erasmus prematurely left Munster in 2017, he had a feeling that it wouldn\u2019t be the last time he would work with Felix Jones or Jerry Flannery. They gave him a watch to mark his departure, which he values so highly that he has never worn it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At the time, no one could have foreseen Jones and Flannery going on to become such key members of South Africa\u2019s backroom team, yet eight years later, there they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jerry Flannery, Felix Jones and Paddy Sullivan have become key parts of Rassie Erasmus\u2019 team South Africa&#8217;s Irish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[95318,39921,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-193997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-autumn-internationals","9":"tag-cian-tracey","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115592245543271193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}