I reckon Rassie will select the following side
15 Willemse 14 Kolbe 13 Jessie 12 de Allende 11 Arendse 10 Pollard 9 Williams 1 Ox 2 Marx 3 Wilco 4 Eben 5 Lood 6 Kolisi 7 PSDT 8 Kwagga
16 Bongi 17 Wessels 18 Koch 19 RG 20 Mostert 21 v Staaden 22 Reinach 23 Sacha
...this confirming that selections in the first 4 games this year were a complete waste of time.
That’s probably the team, but I think Reinach and Sacha will start.
Close but I don't see Kwagga starting ... Wiese jnr at 8 ?
It will be extremely disappointing if Reinach starts - he should not even be in the squad
Hell knows who is going to play 8 - seems ridiculous that there is no specialist 8 in the squad - in fact it’s stupid
Fassi, Esterhuizen and Nortje will be close to making it
Not a big Reinach fan, but I doubt he will play Williams and Sacha.
I have a feeling it will be Williams at 9 and Pollard at 10 given Sacha was a bit under par in his last outing
Pollard to provide steady direction with Sacha off the bench is my guess
Close to our best team, but there will be a Rassie verrassing.
All that is certain - the team will be announced tomorrow. I do not think Esterhuizen wil feature at all unles t would eb as part of the bomb squad and Mostert is also not going to be around,
As to Sacha - he is going to start. The real stats indicate that Pollard has lost a lot of steam and pace and at best he will be a back-up flyhalf - likely to be on the bench,
I do not think hope & pray Esterhuizen wil feature at all unles t would eb as part of the bomb squad and fervently wish Mostert is also not going to be around,
I think that we will see Sasha and maybe a couple of mix and match surprises. I won't be surprised if we see Moerat, but hasn't he been dropped.
So it may be Lood or even Wiese at 4, but who knows.
This is a tricky one as the Wobblies really played well against the lions and showed that they can be physical and dominate in really poor conditions.
I think we will see Sasha at 10 and maybe Williams at 9, but. I think Rassie likes the old guys, so if it is Sasha then Reinach at 9 definitely with Pollard as backup on the bench.
Sasha form for the boks this year has been poor so I wonder if they'll bench him and go for Pollard and Libbok.
Again, I never know what goes on in Rassies head. There are no real combination over the last 4 games that we saw and it is more of a puzzle and Rassie is more looking at who can play in his system rather than what players he has and how does he need to prepare the team.
I don't think we'l see a slick performance coming from he boks and the Wobblies may sniff an opportunity
The real stats indicate that Pollrd has lost a lot of steam and pace
Ou Maaik has access to stats that measure steam and pace. Jirre, it just gets better every day.
Planetrugby picks du Preez at 8
I’d pick JL du Preez at 8 given the options
Mike you are speaking a load of horse shit re Pollard and Esterhuizen
King - Moerat is not in the squad
Lood never plays 4 he will be at 5 but it could be RG, Mostert or Nortje at 5 - RG would walk it for me with Lood on the bench
KC
We do not know wat is going on in your head other than in the case of Easmus his team routinely wins in important tests while your idea as to team selection means a show of unbelievable rugby stupidity similar t what happened under the coaching of Meyer and Coetzee.
There is a need to explain why blatant prejudice should be used as a means of team selection why development of winning rugby does not apply in thise case and such a rugby system of attack does not ecist a happen and why the Springboks scored more ries in tests in 2024 than any other international team while accoding to you they play dead backline crash ball rugby so beloved by the White era rugby coaches are being used under Erasmus based on say-so of the celebrated rugby site analysts who saw anthing Erasmus implemented .in te same light as happened in the case of the Bulls and Sharks on the franchise level of rugby reorestng real dead backline play alled by Mozart as :Traditional Springbok Rugby" is so beloved by rugby site members and made applicabe to Erasmus based om ayacksn him.
Maybe it is time that you watch real macthes and not see what you want to see while ignoring what really happen in matches, Erasmus is not an incompetent coach like White who hold the record of being fired by his employers 4 times based on deficient rugby coaching and in that he led Meyer and Coezee by doubling the firings leasding o their dismisals. What is really surprising is that the site experts write daily attacks on Erasmus and certain players - but they never attacked coaches that damaged Springbok and franchise rugby like White, Meyer and Coetzee did by playing of dead backline rugby - which they claim Erasmus uses - when in fact the sile rugby experts claim is happening basd entirely on their prejudice and is not played under Erasmus but they refuse to see and they consequently ignore what really happen in matches,
.
,
,