Although there were serious team performance deficiencies this week - there are some players who did show that they were above the rest and here is my team of the week comprising of SA players:-
15. Andries Coetzee
14 Lionel Mapoe
13 Harold Vorster
12 Jan Serfontein
11 Ruan Combrinck
10 Handre Pollard
9 Faf de Klerk
8 Warren Whiteley
7 Arno Botha
6 Jaco Kriel
5 Franco Mostert
4 Carl Wegner
3 Marcel van der Merwe
2 Bismarck du Plessis
1 Schalk van der Merwe
Players like Blommetjies, Sithole, Francois Steyn and Bothma came very near - but just did not make it in my book.
In some positions the performances of the players were not up to standard and in this category I include the scrummies, loosies playing at 7 and locks. Alberts was atrociously poor and Arno Botha was the best of the rest. Iro of the locks Matfield - playing against two questionable locks - looked good in line-outs, but vanished from sight in the second half and was as per normal not contributing anything to Tight 5 play. I was not impressed by Faf de Klerk this week - but the other scrummies were even worse than he was.
