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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Wales coach Warren Gatland and his Springbok counterpart Rassie Erasmus have not had the most convivial of relationships, but the hatchet looks to have been buried as the two countries ready to meet in Cardiff on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Erasmus\u2019 antics when Gatland led the British & Irish Lions on their tour to South Africa amid Covid-19 in 2021 got under the skin of the New Zealand-born coach, who has not hesitated over the years since to voice his distaste.<\/p>\n

Only last year, in a podcast with former players, Gatland said South Africa had foregone the spirit of the game with a win-at-all-costs mentality and before that he had appealed to authorities to rein in Erasmus’s social media posts highlighting officiating inconsistencies.<\/p>\n

Erasmus seemed to relish irritating his opponent, notably in his role as \u201cwater boy\u201d during the Lions tour when he used a loophole in the rules to gain proximity to the players on the field by pretending to dispense water.<\/p>\n

But on Wednesday Gatland said he and Erasmus had spoken since and mended fences.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve chatted on a couple of occasions about the Lions tour,\u201d Gatland said at a press conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou’ve got to go past things that happened. We’ve had chats about that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think with Rassie, you know what you get from a South African team with the physicality. They wear their hearts on their sleeve.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Erasmus spoke highly of Gatland, whose future in the Wales job is in doubt after a record-breaking run of 11 successive defeats.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoaching can become lonely. It’s cut-throat. Whenever someone is under the pump, you don’t wish anything bad on that person,\u201d the Bok coach said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn’t say I would love him to beat us, but I would love Warren to be successful. Though we’ve bumped heads in the past, he’s a rugby man through and through.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a lot of respect for him and I hope he gets the respect from everyone that he deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Boks’ clash with Wales at the Principality Stadium concludes the November Test schedule for both countries.<\/p>\n

The world champions have beaten Scotland and England in their last two outings while Wales lost to Fiji and Australia in Cardiff.<\/p>\n

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