Players who makes a difference in outcome of games

There were two games where bench players made a difference yesterday.

In the case of the Wallabies-All Blacks game Slade came on and nailed the last conversion.   Other players with less coolness could have missed the conversion of the final goal kick and I think both Barrett and Cruden may have mmissed the conversion.   The Slade conversion meant a win for the All Blacks - a big difference in the end.

In the  Racing Metro-Northampton Saints game the conversion of the last goal kick meant the difference between the Saints  getting a bonus point or not - that after the Saints did not convert a goal kick stemming from a try being scored - which would have meant a  draw in the game.   The difference came in with the conversion of the final try of Racing Metro. After Sexton missed an earlier penalty kick from a much easier angle _ and bearing in mind his missed goal kicks under pressure - this kick was handled by Goosen - who nailed it and thereby made a real difference on the log points table .       

I still think Goosen is a useful player. Numerous injuries early in his career seem to have slowed his progress, but he'll come good!

Put it this way, I would not want to lose an on form Goosen to the French national side.

I get what Moz is saying here, sure, plenty of our players have been lured to the power of foreign currencies, but most of those players were older or had been overlooked by Springbok management. Goosen took of while he still had every chance of getting into the Springbok mix.