Springbok Team Announced for 2nd test

Springbok team to face the All Blacks in Cape Town:
15 Damian Willemse (DHL Stormers) – 53 caps, 76 pts (8t, 9c, 4p, 2dg)
14 Kurt-Lee Arendse (Mitsubishi Dynaboars) – 33 caps, 125 pts (25t)
13 Jesse Kriel (Canon Eagles) – 91 caps, 115 pts (23t)
12 Damian de Allende (Wild Knights) – 100 caps, 55 pts (11t)
11 Ethan Hooker (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 10 caps, 10 pts (2t)
10 Handre Pollard (Vodacom Bulls) – 87 caps, 832 pts (8t, 130 c, 175 p, 5dg)
9 Cobus Reinach (DHL Stormers) – 54 caps, 100 pts (20t)

8 Jasper Wiese (Urayasu D-Rocks) – 46 caps, 20 pts (4t)
7 Pieter-Steph du Toit (captain, Toyota Verblitz) – 99 caps, 70 pts (14t)
6 Siya Kolisi (DHL Stormers) – 104 caps, 70 pts (14t) / Paul de Villiers (DHL Stormers) – 4 cap, 5 pts (1t)
5 Ruan Nortje (Kubota Spears) - 21 caps, 5 pts (1t)
4 Eben Etzebeth (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 143 caps, 45 pts (9t)
3 Wilco Louw (DHL Stormers) – 32 caps, 10 pts (2t)
2 Malcolm Marx (Kubota Spears) – 90 caps, 135 pts (27t)
1 Ox Nche (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 49 caps, 0 pts

Replacements:
16 Deon Fourie (DHL Stormers) – 13 caps, 10 pts (2t)
17 Gerhard Steenekamp (Vodacom Bulls) – 20 caps, 10 pts (2t)
18 Thomas du Toit (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 34 caps, 10 pts (2t)
19 Lood de Jager (Wild Knights) – 74 caps, 25 pts (5t)
20 Andre Esterhuizen (Hollywoodbets Sharks) – 32 caps, 30 pts (6t)
21 Cameron Hanekom (Vodacom Bulls) – 3 caps, 5 pts (1t)
22 Morne van den Berg (10bet Lions) – 7 caps, 25 pts (5t)
23 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu (DHL Stormers) – 21 caps, 177 pts (9t, 45c, 14p)

I see Williams paid the price, not sure that this team will help us match. Very old team and the bench looks even weaker than before.

However, Pollard will steer the ship, but why is Sasha there, probably as a utility player. Maybe he will become the next Willemse for the next few seasons and end up at full back.

This is the most static bok backline ever. I'm expecting a lot of cross field bombs from Pollard, Hooker and Arendse chasing all game and same old same old.

Hopefully we will have more direction from the base.

Don't think Kolisi will add any value, but see Cam Hannekom on the bench. Probably to substitute Kolisi.

And Deon Fourie at Hooker? Might be automatic switch for Kolisi and Marx expected to play the whole game

Sasha is massively out form. He cost the Stormers 6 matches this season and against weaker opponents. The stormers did better with a robotic player like Jurie Mathee and was winning more games with him at 10.

Piss poor backline that - same past it centre combination yet again and bringing back useless Reinach to start is a backwards step.

Deon Fourie as the replacement hooker is a joke

So Deon Fourie is back. Is he cover for Marx or for Kolisi? I'm happy to see Cameron made it to the bench. I would've gone with Ruben van Heerden as lock cover instead of Lood de Jager.

It's a pity that AE couldn't start with Moodie. Instead, we have Laurel and Hardy again. Better tighthead cover in Thomas. Hopefully Polly can guide us to a win this time.

Ja, Rassie is stuck between two teams. The team he should have invested in, but kept the guys that won him the 2019 world cup. Apparently that was on his player roadmap. Then he had success with adding the old head to squad, but now they are almost the entire team.

He is too scared to roll the dice and back the youngsters.

If Sasha is the next best thing since slice bread, why don't put him in a team with the like minded players around him.

If Hooker is a 12, Moodie a 13 then why not select the 3 together. Have van den berg hold down the 9 until pead is ready in the next couple of years or at least Papier. Why not play them together more often.

Have we ever seen that backline?

Then in the pack, let's continue with Cam Hannekom, Se Villiers and Venter. Throw in a few old heads but not 99% of your team