Agreed, I have never been a Lomp fan, but he was excellent on Saturday playing with real intent.
Agreed, I have never been a Lomp fan, but he was excellent on Saturday playing with real intent.
Let's hope his shoulders hold out, by his own admission they're not built for rugby.
He was very good - two line out steals as well
What I do noted was that Loo0d is abck to his noral high performance level and is together with Etzebeth and Snyman the top lock choices, According to what I saw his playing in Japan has advanced his peformance and he is now more where e action is than he sued to be. He still is physically very strong asis evident b th try he scored,
I do not think that Mostert is in line to play at lock in future - more likely to be on the fringes iro the number 7 poisition than at lock. But then Esterhuizen is also competing for the number 7 Jersey, ,
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I know we feel that Lomp is just dead wood, but I watched the game again last night and in his first two touches. Each of his carries were averaging 5 meters. It doesn't sound like match, but what he did brilliantly is to get over the gain line and taking players with him. He even managed to poach a few balls and hit the rucks. One of this hits were poor Jean Luc that unfortunately had to go off for HIA.
I was really impressed with him. He is only 31 and definitely had a great work rate on the park. I hope he can keep this up. We may have good season after all in our pack.
I noticed Rassie picked two locks again on the bench. Looks like we'll be seeing more of the 2 rows and bomb squad