After his dismal performnce against the Stormers it is indeed surprising that Matfield is still in the line up. The ther change was to move Hougaard - after another dubious oerformance to th wing and bring in Van Zyl as the starting scrummie.
However, the interesting players in the Match day 22 is on the other side of the scale. They will no doubt make a huge impact on the Bulls team in future and in fact came from the Under 20 WC side. Although we are getting used to the fact that Pollard starts for the Bulls - the other 2014 UWC players are -
* Jesse Kriel
* Marcin Ori
* Nicolaas Janse van Rensburg
Aside from that William Small-Smith stay in contention.
It looks like the Bulls are starting to liene up players for the CC - with a view to the CC and their entry into the Super 15 next year.
Nicolaas Janse van Rensburg is a hard nut no 5 lock and they need one - Matfield is not the answer - he is pap. Ori is another lock - but not as hard a one as Nic - but then one assumes that Flippie will be back next year.
Small-Smith stay in contention - I am beginning to wonder when he will come into the piicture at 13 and JJ moved to the wing. In any event Jesse Kriel is a future superstar at 13 in any event - he was absolutely superb during the JWC.
Incidentally the UWC players are already making an impact - Du Toit was very good as a prop for the Sharks last Saturday.
