Put Thomas du Toit on the Bok bench

This kid has already shown he can cut it. Far too little is made of the fact that he was scrumming against Franks last week,  in a match that really mattered. In that semi setting you got max Franks. Tom handled the situation without conceding a penalty and by my count broke even in scrums dominated. He can come in off the bench in a RC test and be counted on to produce.

But crucially he is still only 19 and needs to be protected. He will get less meaningless game time.....more education ....and better medical supervision playing for the Boks.

Du Toit is the answer to the Bok loosehead question till 202 5, lets look after him for the next year and put him on the Bok bench.

Du Toit represented Boland at the Under-13 Craven Week competition in 2008 and Western Province at the 2011 Under-16 Grant Khomo Week and 2013 Under-18 Craven Week competitions. He played for the Paarl Boys' High School first team in 2012 and 2013,[2] also captaining the side in 2013.[3]

In 2013, Du Toit was included in the South African Schools side that played in three matches in August of that year.[4] He made a substitute appearance in a 19–14 victory match over England in Crawford,[5] played the entire second match – a 17–13 victory against France in George[6] and was an unused substitute in their final match, a 14–13 win over Wales in Worcester.[7]

Du Toit then opted to move to Durban to join the Natal Sharks academy for 2014.[8]

He was included in the S.A. Under-20 side for the 2014 IRB Junior World Championship.[9]

Senior career[edit]

With no prior first class rugby behind his name, Du Toit was a surprise inclusion in the Sharks squad for the 2014 Super Rugby season.[10] Still finding himself behind the likes of Tendai Mtawarira in the pecking order, however, he dropped down to the Sharks XV squad for the 2014 Vodacom Cup season.[11] He made his senior debut on 7 March 2014, against the Border Bulldogs in East London.[12] He came on as a half-time substitute and scored his first senior try just 15 minutes after coming on. His first start came three weeks later against the Free State XV inBloemfontein.[13

I think the guy is too young. Leave him be?