Mapoe will be 33 when he starts for the Bulls, with Combrink 31. Both still have a few years left in them.
Maybe White prefers to recruit backline players that are older, so he does not have to coach them.
There have not been many new junior backline players combing through the Bulls Under21 system.
Combrink offers good utility value covering fullback, wing, and perhaps outside centre.
Mapoe is a specialist 13, who will not have the pace to cover wing.
Both are way stale...much better backs around.
Mapoe is actually a very intelligent outside centre. You can't coach intellect into a player, and most of the new gen players are a lot less intelligent than the previous generation.
Ou Organhuffer is of course a next gen poster.
Bwahahaha.
Tell us again how frot Du Toit is??
Show me the world class production. Simples.
Kindergarten Imbecile
Nobody can show you anything - although Draad was very much to the point - because nobody is as blind as somebody who refuses to see.
Dud Toit holding Vermeulen’s trophy.
Vermeulen should have won it twice already.
Combrink is one of the most reliable and clever players we've produced recently. Huge boot, great defender and seems incapable of making a wrong decision.
Not got oodles of pace but certainly on par with Willie's km/h . For me, Willie is brilliant tackler. Outside of that, Combribk is superior.
Hmm Combrink has not really done well abroad recently and neither has Mapoe.
Combrink got booted from his club and came back to SA to farm.
We are talking about 5 years back when Combrink was doing really well for the lions, but that was about as good you'l ever see him.
Not sure if White can squeeze any value out of these players, but that said, look how well Steyn has done under white.
I think he just wants to some experience to help his backline out. There are a lot of good youngsters around like Kriel and Arendse, but he will need to start building his backline with some decent centeres and flyhalfs, but the bulls are looking good at the moment
Potential Backline
9. Papier
10. Goosen
11. Madosh Tambwe
12. Cornal Hendriks
13. Mapoe
14 Combrink
15. David Kriel
But I still think the bulls would be better if they could ever get back
Pollard, Serfontein, Kriel
