Looking at the performance of the SA props in scrumming, I was very unhappy about the whole lot. Te strugglers toay was all on the losing sides - so what is the real problem?
Insofar as Tightheads are concerned we used Dreyer and Wilco Louw last year in the tests and when Dreyer failed miserably all our hopes was placed on Wilco Louw,, because he was at least an improvement on Dreyer, However Louw has had a string of poor performances from a scrumming perspective this year. Today was typical he tried to beat Jannie in retreating at speed in scrums. The first really good scrum today was when Malherbe replaced him today. The other Tigthead ome can look at is Du Toit. His scrumming against the Highlanders was twice as good as the Lions did today against the same players.
The loosehead situation is equally bad, Beast was anything but good today when he was scrumming against Nyakane. Kitshoff was in the same - no-hp[e category as Beast
However, it would bee interesting to see which way Rassie goes with his prop selection. Rassie would by now have studied all the props and come up with a solution to the problem. It maysurprise most of us as to what can materialize.
