Unless we want New Zealand to retain the World CUp and are happy with 3rd place in the Rugby Championship,certain people don't cut the mustard,Werner Kruger is one of them and he looks like a toolbox too,he's not a Springbok.Who else doesn't make the grade?
Perhaps someone should mention to Meyer that he is the Springbok manager and not the Bulls manager.
If Kruger is the best (bench impact player) avaialble as a prop man have we got problems.
Unfortunately beside Kruger the one player that disappointed me when coming from the bench was Strauss. In the last test he missed three of the 6 tackles he tried to make and the roll of the hooker in scrummaging was pathetic to say the least. Can he make the transition from Super 15 level to international level?
I think not - have a problem with his roll - as our scrummaging collapsed when he came on. People blamed Kruger only - but that is not the the only problem in this case. The others not in the set up when the injured players return would be Daniel and Kankowski.
Please put Crash ball olivier to pasture now. He got another chance last chance. He was quite decent on devense i have to give him that. But I can't remember a single time he passed the ball in the whole game. I was under the impression he played inside centre not in the forwards.
I think it is a foregone conclusion that Olivier has played his last test, going to Japan at the end of the season and all. He was one of the best backs on the Saturday though. Spies for me is on borrowed time, he is still good with ball in hand, but if he hasn't started getting involved in the tough stuff at this point in his career, then he isn't going to.
