Agree, what was the point of capping Muchunu when he should have been in the squad
Impressive stats too. How on earth is he not a bok yet? Bulls are upping their recruitment during the off season, they have now brought in Louw, Akker Van Der Merwe. Along with Grobbler and ever improving Jan Hendrik Wessels. Here is hoping the Bulls can dominate the foreign teams like they did in the first season and push for an all South African Semi Final next season.
Height1.94 m (6 ft 4+1?2 in)[1]Weight128 kg (282 lb)Sounds really promising. Our front row is looking stale. We need to inject some life into it. Especially given that New Zealand found a solid combination last year.
For me Kittshoff has been our number 1 loosehead for a number of years. Beast was good, but I think Kittshoff surpassed him, but never got the start that he deserved.
I like Ox, very good scrummager and plays well around the edge of the rucks not to mention decent ball carrier and got some pace on him, but he can't play more than 30 min. Kittshoff can play 90 min and have the same impact.
But I still think Kittshoff should have started more games and played for longer. But now that we have this 50% affirmative action nonsense, good props just don't get a look in.
This bloke should have been capped 2 years ago and been part of the system.
Instead, we have to make do with injury prone Treeevvvaa, whose own club in France hardly plays him.
We do have an opportunity to judge our props, especially during the derby matches. Nothing better to see a scrum battle and who comes out on top.
2nd area I would look at is to see how they play against other internationals.
That said, front row play is a dark art and not many knows what goes on in there. Most of the times the refs don't even get it right.
It also doesn't help if you don't have strong lock other. Remember that prop from the Bulls, I think his name was Keith Mews, played for Namibia in the end. But even he stated that any prop would look good if you had Bakkies behind you.
So, if you have Orrie, Mostert or Nortje behind you, know chance.
Kits never cam close to Beast in any aspect of play. Kits hasn't built on his 2018 to justify being a permanent starter. At best, our front row has been pallet swaps.
Beast is an all time great; Kitshoff is a prop. If Malherbe could replicate his 2018, I'd say he was one of our best tightheads.
So, if we listen to Saddex, our front row is made up of all time great players. It's like listening to an over-emotional child.
"Besides Kobus Visagie "....our best since Hempies...
Visagie was a monster. Perhaps our best. We had some great scrummagers back in the day!
The Beast was a way better scrummager than Kitshoff. Marx is top notch. As a front row last year they did very little. For example, they never troubled the Irish. So much so that Harrassmiss dropped Marx and Kitshoff to the bench for the French test.
No Beast; No World Cup. Let that sink in.
