Pollard or Lambie...your choice

Pollard for me, and please no Pollard and Lambie" cop outs.

Lestat, we had hope for you until you brought up useless Morne as a test quality 10.....what a bloody joke

Pollard, Goosen and Lambie are all test quality........it could not be more obvious than that......just like Morne has for the last 10 years proved he is NOT test quality  

 I agree CC, I felt sorry for the man, he had to kick a 50 meter goal, and I bet through his mind he realised if he wanted any firther part in the Bok setup he had to kick that goal.

I am very f...n glad he made that kick.

I don't think he has ever been treated fairly by Meyer or PDV.

Agree Mike, if Meyer can select Pollard, Lambie, Goosen and Willie, he covers both flyhalf and Fullback three times over.

I will be happy with that as they are all four talented players.

A bit of history.....

Mozart

Why did Meyer play ping-pong with Pollard's career during 2014 and 2015 and used Lambie ahead of him in the tests,    In reality you are asking the wrong  people the above question - you should really found out rom Meyer why he preferred Lambie  to Pollard at flyhalf,  

Actually, Meyer preferred Pollard. It was the media who preferred Lambie. Lambie was always the popular choice, for no reason whatsoever. Interesting that his kicking was the reason for it here, as he was always tauted as being the premier running 10, again, for no reason whatsoever. His tactical kicking on the 2014 EOYT was diabolical. Meyer's only weakness as coach was not sticking to his gut instinct in the face of criticsm, he cared too much what people think and those popular selections he made failed him each and every time. Jake on the otherhand, he stuck to what he knew best and made the plastics and their media deities eat it! Hence the bitterness that exists in SA towards him 

Another fabrication -  a coach who listens to the media should not be the coach  and Meyer did squad other than to be overtaken by events forcing his hand in selecting performing players.    Anyway Morne knows anything about tactical kicking?   Everybody bar you realize he never knew the difference between tactical kicking and possession handover BS kicking.   The fact is you are lying through your teeth,   Pollard played against Ireland and for the rest he rarely played, in the rest of the EOYT,   His kicking game against Ireland was NOT as  poor as Morne's routine kicking game and that was not the reason for the loss against Ireland - so your new excuse is another feeble invention in your over-burdened and ignorant mind. 

Another truth was that Meyer stuck to the idiocy of selecting players on reputation with zero regard to performance  ending up with a horrible WC squad with at least 8 unplayable players in the squad,  He never gave in when it was clearly spelled out in the media that the squad was BS and they proved it by losing against the weak Japan team.

In summary - a coach who listens to the media is never to be used as a coach    Neither should one be if he does not know how to select  his squad  on performance basis and not only on reputation.    If Meyer indeed listened to the media - which he never did - he would not have committed all the mistakes he made and may have ended  up with a better reputation than he has at present.   He made himself an unemployable person in the coaching field.

He is now writing a book about his coaching career and I recommend all coaches to read it and find out how to avoid being as poor a coach as  he was,