The first to go out of the squad because he likely knew he was not going to make the team was Francois Steyn.
The enxt to go after umpteen bugger-ups and totally lacklustre play at flyhalf was Morne Steyn
The next one to follow was Bakkies Botha - who took himslef out of contention for future selection. He probably realized that his performances were not up to standard and went out on his own.
The following are still around - but should not be:-
* Victor Matfield
* Jannie du Plessis
* JP Pietersen
* Jean de Villiers
Matfield is weakening our Tight 5 comprehensively and is not doing uch iro line out work anyway. On this tour he is averaging 4,75 line out takes per match. That is very low for a lock. Time for retirement is long overdue - two many players just turn him intotheir bunny.
Jannie du Plessis had a spotty test performance this year. One third of the matches he ws a disaster and the res t average. Mozart attcked all of Mlaherbe, Oosthuizen and Van der Merwe bdlessly about scrumming - mostly on myths he discovered himself - to justify the retention of Jannie in the team,
JP has lost so much pace it really is not worthwhile playing him anymore. When Goosen made a long distance run todat P{ietersen could not keep up with him and a tryscoring opportunity went abeggig. Too slow for any backline position.
Jean is a borderline case - he showed Zero in tests this year - but had his best performane today.
Aside from the above four there are two others enjured at present who should never be allowed back into the Springbok squad, namely -
* Willem Alberts
* Jacque Fourie
Please note that all the above players - bar Pietersen - are way over 30 years of age and definitely selected not on performance basis - but on reputation and in teh case of Matfield on the basis of jobs-for-pals.
Mozart's favourites are going out slowly - and soon he may not have any other old-timers left to punt.


