If you were selecting a WC squad

Mine would be:

15. Willie / Gelant

14/11. Mapimpi / Nkosi / Kolbe / Arendse

13/12. de Allende / Am / Esterhuizen / JVR / Willemse

10. Pollard / Libbok

9. Faf / Hendrikse

1/3. Ox / Kitshoff / Malherbe / Thomas du Toit / Wilco Louw

2. Marx / Mbonambi

4/5. Etzebeth / Jason Jenkins / Lood / RG Snyman

6/7/8. Kolisi / Kwagga / PSDT / JL du Preez / Wiese / Dan du Preez / Roos

Standby 15 would be:

15. Fassi

14/11. Tambwe / Zas

13/12. Jessie Kriel / Serfontein

10. Jantjies

9. Nohamba

1/3. Gerhard Steenkamp / Sadie

2. Dweba

4/5. Moerat / Ruben v Heerden

6/7/8. Buthelezi / Vincent Tsituka / Elrigh Louw

Not important enough to have an actual coach do it apparently.

If you had more than one brain cell you could rub them together to start a fire to illuminate your cretaceous period hollow, maybe then these exchanges would be more fruitful for you! 

You can only have 5 loose forwards because teams normally have 3 hookers and 3 scrummies. 

It would have been great if we had a more versatile hookers and scrum halves that could cover more than one position. However, standby players can be added relatively easy if a player gets a serious injury. 

Gelant has now been demoted. If he was in SA I would select him but I would make Willemse my backup 15. We also have Arendse and Moody that can cover those positions as well as Kolbe. Although, both Kolbe and Arendse is a bit too small for me to have both in the back 3. 

I would start with who would be my starting 15. 

1. Kitshoff - Du Toit
2. Marx - Bongi - Grobbler
3. Malherbe - Louw
4. Etzebeth - Jenkins
5. Lood - PSDT - Mostert
6. Kolisi - Kwagga
7. Kwagga
8. Wiese  - Roos
9. Faf - Hendriksen - Zak Burger
10. Pollard - Libbok 
11. Moody 
12. Esterhuizen - Dud
13. Am - JVS
14. Kolbe - Arendse
15. Willie - Willemse

I like the idea of moving Dud back to lock. He could function there, but can he take his lineout ball? I’d love to have seen Etzebeth at 5. I think he is athletic enough to pull it off and that would open the door for another monster at 4. Still it’s a brave man who would switch positions for the world’s best number 4.