15 Willie le Roux, 14 Sbu Nkosi, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Aphiwe Dyantyi, 10 Handré Pollard, 9 Embrose Papier, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit, 6 Siya Kolisi (c), 5 Franco Mostert, 4 RG Snyman, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Malcolm Marx, 1 Steven Kitshoff
Replacements : 16 Bongi Mbonambi, 17 Thomas du Toit, 18 Vincent Koch, 19 Lood de Jager, 20 Francois Louw, 21 Ivan van Zyl, 22 Elton Jantjies, 23 Cheslin Kolbe
I will save Mozart and AO the time to make their comments on the team so here goes:-
* Aphiwe Dyantyi should not be in the starting team - Cheslyn Kolbe should start
* How the hell can De Allende again be selected ahead of Andre Esterhuizen. Th latter was extremely good in the test he played in - has Erasmus gone nuts?
* Du Toit was moved to the no 7 position because he is physically too weak to play as a lock
* Mostert is the best lock no 5 after Matfield
* How can Erasmus be so stupid to pick Koch ahead of Louw to be on the bench
So what are my own comments?
* I would say thank heavens the defense-deficient Eserhuizen is not in the team. I am not happy about De Allende - but Esterhuizen is not the answer.
* I do not think Mostert is physical enough to make the grade at lock.
* What is the low work rate Louw doing on the bench
In the meantime my two friends Mozart and AO will use there microscopes to find reasons to attack Du Toit and De Allende and if they cannot find any - there is always the easy solution, imagine one happened,
