Should Kolisi be dropped for the lions

I know it is a bit harsh to drop our  world cup winning captain, although he only played for 56 minutes in the final and never seem to be able to finish  a game. 

I just asked the question on whether Kolisi is the right man to lead us. 

He seems to be too wrapped in Rock Nation, doing all of his endorsements. He has hardly played and only recently started for the sharks. He is not even their captain. 

With the lions right around the corner, I wonder if he will be in form and ready to take them on. 

We have enough leaders in the squad, just wondering whether Rassie will select the guy on sentiment or if he will go with form

Kolisi has no leadership and has nothing to offer as a player. It's really that simple. He was the only black quota in the WC squad. He has actually been almost totally anonymous on the pitch throughout Josè's tenure. A few simple runs that lead to nothing, aside from the home All Black test of 2018. 

Golden rule. Only make changes when forced to with injuries or when there is someone clearly better, and then only from the bench. Dropping him now will open the mother of all cans of worms. Not worth it.

So it is better to lose agains the Lions then just so that we don't upset the ANC. We have enough black players in the team on merit. Why does the captain have to be black and even Am has done a decent job at the sharks

He is not good enough as a player or captain but there is no chance he will be dropped. Best we can hope for is a par performance for 50 min followed by a substitution. 

I think he should not be dropped because there is no one else clearly better than him. He is the face of the team the ANC would like to see. Duane is his general on the battlefield....there is no reason for another captain, because the current leadership as a collective won us the Rugby World Cup...I see no merit in risking to upset the politicians by fiddling with a proven winning combination. We had enough disruptions, we shouldn't go looking for more.

Kolisi one of the best opensides of the game? I don't for one moment believe that Josè thinks Kolisi is anything more than a political move. He was juggling Kolisi around like a hot potato before in 2018. Hemmed himself in. 

Schreuder can kick and pass accurately. You backed Reinach, who consistently failed to hit a simple screen pass from 2m and exhibited his wonky boot. You always fail Unteromlett. As per Morné? I backed Pollard when you were still pining for Lambie and Goosen. What did I say? Give him an extended run leading into the 2015 WC, with Morné on the bench if and when we need tactical control. As it was, we didn't have Morné when we were trapped in our half against New Zealand. Lambie's first contribution was a direct run like Pollard, where he got smashed and turned over. That about sums up your calls Unteromlett, one big splat. Like a mosquito hitting the windscreen of reality. I love it so! There's your new name: Bugsplat. 

Kindergarten  Imbecile

You always live up to  to the  description  I gave you.    For many years  you supported Moine and when he was replaced you were still lying about how he f#cked up the Perth test in 2014.   When Pollard replaced him you to moaned like  a stuck pig about it,   

So you at lakstc hanged your mind and when?       

My opinion on the matter has been consistent. I defended Pollard on the 2014 EOYT when plastics like you had the knives out for him! You attacked Pollard, but defended the atrocities of Lambie. If you're going to tell it, tell it as it is Lügnerin. You live up to the title. 

As per the 2014 test? Who jumped the line, tackled a player without the ball and left a hole for Australia to work through to win the game? The ball was 60m away from our tryline, the events that transpired thereafter is what shows your true dishonest nature. You even lied about the weather, stating it was calm and dry weather. I said Morné pushed for too much distance into a strong wind, that's where his transgression ends. That fan favourites couldn't maintain line integrity for a few minutes with 60m of territory is quite another. I believe it was Serfontein who also made a key lapse.

You are dishonest, and vindictive. Traits that are too deep set at this point to be remedied. 

Kolisi is never ball in hand, Dud Toit sees to that.

Kindergarten Imbecile 

Who missed finding touch  with a penalty line kick in the Perth test by at least 5 meters - while Habama was off with a yellow card and would have returned to plamoff the idiot kicker found touch and the ball would have remained in the hands  of the Springboks and NOT the Aussies?

That was one of the biggest bugger-ops I have ever seen in test rugby and caused the Springboks to lose the test,    Wind  ss now the excuse for a total foul up by a player who was guilty of similar missed such kicks regularly - seven of those in  none tests.    A new  rubbish excuse for a total bugger-up.

And you so\called support for Pollard was only when the worst coach in the past decade - a total  failure in coaching - picked Lambie ahead of   Pollard in the EOYT and not when the  idiot coach  still had Morne in the mix.    

Whenever you support a player failure is guaranteed.   By the way under what username were you posting in 2014?            

Losing your nerve again Lügnerin. I can imagine you this morning: One slipper on foot, your pajama pants the wrong ear around shuffling around until you stumble onto your keyboard. Squinting at the screen, your lip quivering into a snarl as the word Mozart appears out of the haze. Now you clench the keyboard and begin mashing it furiously! 

Your constant reference to that game as the cornerstone of your argument is as weak as your understanding of his contribution to the Boks. Even if you just want to balance two games... I would take the Perth defeat any day of the week for the 2nd test victory against the BIL in the Pretoria test. A game I was at where he turned certain defeat into a victory when Ruan was subbed. 

Morne was quite something 2009 to 2011...and always solid enough ever since...not the most creative 10, but his record speaks for itself...he doesn't deserve the abuse.

Agreed, for me by 2013 he had reached his sell by date. Can't blame the player for his continued selection. Lood is a case in point. 

An ability to create space, read play and had the best long passing game of any of our tens of the past twenty six years. No other Bok 10 has a record of backline success like Morné. He did it in 2010 without Du Preez at Super and test level. Lambie, Goosen, Bosch, Cat, Jantjies, Rose and all the other pretenders haven't come close. As for Pollard, it's only in the past couple of active seasons that he has grown more into his potential. He still has a way to go. 

Okes, so looks like we are divided about whether kolisi should waltz in the team. 

Not many games left before the BI shows up, but he needs to pull up his socks. 

Personally, he use to be a fantastic attacking 7, he was never a 6 and will never be a 6. But he has bulked up a lot since then, but with the size comes a price. He no longer has the stamina to last the game. 

Where as Duane and Steph have natural bulk and can last all game. 

Kolisi did have a great WC final, probably his best game. Really solid, made all of his tackles. But he never attacks the rucks, always stands 2 players away from the ruck, gets skewed stats as he hardly ever tackles on his own. 

But Sadsex is right, who else do we have at 6. Van Staden has been solid but no other 6 really putting up their hands

No he should not be dropped...he is deserved of the part.

Team spirit is essential for any side...one of the most important drivers and motivators. We stop making issues of petty things.

I've never thought Kolisi a quota...I'm dead against Quota's, Black Empowerment or anything hypocritically racial...white,black or pink. 

We must quit this way of thinking

Kolisi is a media and political presence. Nothing more. He is a hollow, flaccid selection that doesn't even qualify as an adequate feel good selection. He is the celebration of what? The ascendancy of mediocrity to sum up the new South Africa? He doesn't deserve to be in the squad. 

I can’t think of one single instance throughout the WC where Kolisi made a meaningful difference......tackle, run, offload, turnover.....nothing. You can’t say that about any of our other players.

He was basically just a body on the field until about 55 minutes when he was subbed.

Mozart

Unfortunately  you memory is lapsing.    Have  look at the ball  recovery by Kolisi before  Fransie"s long kick  downfield  followed by the open-field tackle by Du Toit keeping the Enhlishin their own half - which some tome later let to the try scored by Kolbie.

Kolisi was constantly  at breakdown points to together with   Vermeulen  De Allende and Do Toit ensured that there were no turnovers in possession after tackles.  

Kolisi must be an absolute wizard seeing as he was taken off at 63' and Frans was brought on at 68' .

Lügnerin does it again! The tongue forks and his solitary lobe can't keep track of its wild fluttering. Many laughs ensue. Not the first second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth or even twentieth time he has made this kind of error. He simply doesn't learn! 

Poor old Perv....any school boy involvement in a play is sufficient to justify players he is supporting.....even if they weren’t on the field when the incident happened.

Kolisi was irrelevant.

Whenever you and  the Kindergarten Imbecile condemns a player you can be sure the opposite is true,    

I see ou Organhuffer thinks the pedestrian Schreuder is a top scrumhalf. Hahahahahahahahha hilarious! But wasn't organhuffer the oak arguing that Morne Steyn was better than Dan Carter at one point? 

"But wasn't organhuffer the oak arguing that Morne Steyn was better than Dan Carter at one point?"

Careful now Herr Sitzsack, you're falling into a Lügnerin lie that he resurrected three times at his own expense. I've always maintained that Butch was the most talented Bok 10 we've had. I ranked Carter joint first with Larkham.

As per Schreuder? He ranked top of the 9s for assists in the 2018 and 2019 Super rugby seasons. He is the most fundamentally sound, i.e., he can kick and pass a accurately. Faf et al can't do these things.

Herr Sitzsack, you're like a drunk playing darts with these feeble bleatings. Nothings sticking. 

Problem is that Butch James  whom I met twice is s stupid a person as you are and develop a regimen of play that was one=dimensional to say the least.    He deserved to be a Springbok - but he was 10 times better than Morne Steyn but not a patch on Pollard,    

Schreuder is a nice Provincial player - but never one to take the step up to higher level.  In that he can be regarded as equal to Esterhuizen - who was tried on test level and produced zilch  o f real value in the matches he played, where he only proved he was a deficient defender,        

I've met Butch as well, and I can verify that he can string at least two coherent words together! You should have been taking notes Lügnerin 

Let's go back to the WC and see all those wonky kicks by Faf. Or all those missed passes by Faf and Reinach - the latter looking out of his depth against minnows. You're easy pickings Lügnerin. 

There was no wonking kicks  by Faf in the WC final.   With the exception of  one kick that was slightly too far for effective follow\up - every kick he made put the English recipient  under pressure and they constantly lost ground as a result.

Easy picking out the total BS you write on site  has been going on for years.           

So Kolisi had a massive impact this weekend for the SAARKS. So big that his team conceded 40 points. All thanks to some fantastic mauling and forward play by the bulls. 

Kolisi has never been a forward that can get stuck in when he needs to. Likes to hang around the fringes or the wing. 

But I have never seen him actually defend on the try line

Again, not sure in the condition that he is that he will cope against the lions. 

If he can man up in the tight or keep up with the likes of Tom Curry then I'm sorry. He is not ready for the lions. 

Not many games left until J uly for him to come right