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How have proud Cheetahs been brought this low?

THE Rassie Erasmus movie currently on television includes a clip of the glory days of the Cheetahs when they won the full-strength Currie Cup three years in a row under Rassie and current Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber.

In fact, last Saturday I watched the movie, replete with a gleeful Ollie le Roux famously smoking a cigar minutes after the final whistle of the 2005 triumph, and that made it all the more startling to read in Rapport

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