How as a national coach do you miss out on a player

Meyer does it all the time.....look no further than the snubbing of Paul Willemse.....but another prime candidate is Theron, the Baby Bok coach.

In Marius Louw, we have an inside centre setting the world alight for the Sharks Vodacom Cup side and he has not even had a call up to an extended Baby Bok training squad.

Surely as a national coach, the minimum expectation is that you research extensively the available talent and make sure you don't leave a single stone unturned.

These coaches just don't deserve their jobs....they cant even get the basics right

The pretender to Matfield is Sharks No5 lock Pieter-Steph du Toit. And on Saturday Matfield was against the master and Du Toit had to be content with the role of apprentice.

It isn’t the first time in Matfield’s distinguished career that he has been written off. It also won’t be the last time questions will be asked, within the media and by the public, about his potential World Cup contribution this year.

Matfield was the player of the match in the Springboks’ 2007 World Cup win against England. He has been the best No5 lock in the professional era and he is rated by peers as the most complete No 5 lock. Matfield’s understanding of lineout play and his contribution to restarts are unrivalled among locks in SA and, in his prime, in Tests.

He has done it all with the Bulls and the Boks. He has won Super Rugby and Currie Cup titles with the Bulls and won the World Cup, the Tri-nations and a British and Irish Lions series with the Boks. He is the most capped Springbok and regarded internationally as one of the finest to have played the game.

Light as a feather and look at those stick legs and arms.

That bicep looks like Joe A tlas before he did weight training