Potential team to play in the July tests

First of all I was horrified by the total dosaste the Bulls were in getting yellow cards fo stu,pid actions, disintegrtioon /of defense and worse in Attack. Losing line-outs on own throw represents total ambition to lose matches.

There were some deficientcies in thw match where io many times where b acklin defens deteriorated badly - where players go/t penlizd waay to o/ften,- the line=outs were poo/r. Th e o/n;my dcent lock was a 20 year old on his way to the Under 20 RWC in Georgia. What happened today look

The th ruid match waqs he S A A team a gainst Zimbabwe, The only decent center in all three matches was Muller an t he o/nly decent flyhalf was Jaqeed Ahmed despite the accidential red card,

Unfortunately some Under 20 players will be away in Georgia:-

15 Horn

14 Van der Merwe

13 Willmse

12 De Allende

11 Kolbe

10 Matthee

9 Papier

8 W.iese

7 Du Toit

6 Kolisi\

5 Van Heerden

4 Van Heerden

3 Du Toit

2 Marx

1 Nche

16 Grobellaar

17 Mchunu,

18 ???????????

19 ????????

20 Roos

21 De Villiers

22 Papier

23 Kriel

There are a number of Under 20 playe s I would have included and in particu,lar Muller at center, Aaqwwn A hmed at f;yhaf and Norton at lo/ck. But t hey are not avaiable amd gome tp Georgia for t he Undr 20 RWC 2026

Oom Mike, here is the squad for the next 4 test match. See JJ Mesh didn't make the cut.

Hookers: Johan Grobbelaar, Malcolm Marx, Andre-Hugo Venter

Locks: Lood de Jager, Eben Etzebeth, Ruan Nortje, Ruben van Heerden

Loose forwards: Paul de Villiers, Ben-Jason Dixon, Cameron Hanekom, Siya Kolisi, Evan Roos, Vincent Tshituka, Jasper Wiese.

Utility forwards: Pieter-Steph du Toit, Franco Mostert, Riley Norton, Marco van Staden, Jan-Hendrik Wessels, Cobus Wiese

Scrum-halves: Embrose Papier, Herschel Jantjies, Cobus Reinach, Grant Williams

Fly-halves: Manie Libbok, Vusi Moyo, Handre Pollard

Centres: Damian de Allende, Andre Esterhuizen, Jesse Kriel

Outside and utility backs: Kurt-Lee Arendse, Aphelele Fassi, Quan Horn, Cheslin Kolbe, Canan Moodie, Edwill van der Merwe, Jaco Williams, Damian Willemse

I expect Eben and Loos to break down again, but if they can regain form and stay fit for the All Black series I would feel a lot better. But if I was Dave Rennie and watched how the likes of Kolbe, Horn and Arendse bit bounced by the polynesians I would load up my entire back line and loose forwards with them

Also, Kolbe has lost a lot of pace

I stay with hat I regard as logical performance based. In successive matches Matthee was a far bettter playe thann Pollard was,\

In the case of Centers Engelkbrecht was a joke in both attack and defense,

The number of yellow cads of backline were sickening.