The Boks side that should be

Wouldn't complain too much if that was the team. As you know I'm not the biggest fan of Willie le Roux and I think Fassi is a future star but what I like most about your side is you've moved Pieter-Steph back to lock where he belongs.

Just not sure your side is representative enough. Expect Mbonambi to start ahead of Marx and a few other front-row changes.

Dve

Glad to see you back.    Mozart has gone crazy in your absence and he needs to be held in check.   I think there may be a problem playing Du toit at lock - for me the frontrunner in the no 5 lock position is Van Rensburg and the no 8 is Wiese.   

However we will need to wait and see what comnes up.     

Sharkbok, your obsession with the Du Preez twins is starting to resemble that of Omlett and Omellete when it comes to PSdT.

Not sure what it is you hate about them but for me they are fast and skilled for such big men and they also play with a lot of passion. If it was me I'd move PSdT to lock and play either Dan or Jean-Luc at #7 with the other one on the bench.

PSDT hasn't played lock in years...I'd rather start him in the position he's played in for the last couple of seasons. He's become a 7 that can stand in at lock.

By the way - even the media claim that  the back-up player for Pollard will be Goosen and not Steyn or Jantjies.  Both buggered up Royally in the .two A team matches and that is the end of their story as potential Springboks.  

White is very happy at what he has seen of Goosen on Saturday and I think Erasmus and Nienaber share his feelings in that regard.   Will niot be surprised if he is called upo to join the squad this week already.     

Dave

I spoke to Malherbe's father - he assured me that Malherbe and Pollard have  been tested and is now negative.  Neither of them were sick or showed any signs of illness  and they were already cleared last week Thursday when they were retested.   Have not ehard anything about the other players who were initially tested. 

As to the the two A-teams who played  on Wednesday and Saturday i think that the two games were regarded as trial games. anyway.   rom what i have seen Mostert will not make the grade.   against the  Lions team he got run over again  -  jsut not physical enough to make the grade.

Now  a  further question - what doyou think about Goosen as back-up for Pollard at flyhalf?    He was magic playing for he Bulls on  Saturday and  was the main cause why the A-team lost.         

The Twins are good provincial-level players, not test standard players. 
To have them both in one back row is totally unbalanced and offers nothing at the breakdown.

Compare them to the likes of Duane Vermeulen or Steph Dutoit, and they are just not all-around players. One of them is ok , but two in the same team is pointless.

I see the Sales Sharks where they are playing are doing terrible. 

Creatine is not an anabolic steroid. 

Actually a really good team, I take it that you don't rate Wiese enough as a starter. 

I would start with my strongest team too.  I think Gatland knows what is coming and he has gone or a lighter back 3 to  try and move the boks around. 

All the kiwi coaches know that in order  to beat the boks, you just move them around the park a lot. Eventually they will run out of steam and with that defence, they can't just rush and scramble all game long. 

Nienabaar also looked a bit like a deer in the headlights to explain how the SA A team lost to the Bulls team full of youngsters and Goosen. 

But I would bring him into the team, even if it is just on the bench in place of Willemse who is probably the most overrated player in SA right now. 

He has absolutely no game management. 

We need Willie, creates so much for us from the back. 

I will  not choose kwagga at all. Super rugby is his ceiling. Won't get a chance  to run into space like he did for the Golden shower lions 

Willemse, Goosen, Steph, Kolisi, Damian... uncompetitive. So too Lood. Nkosi is touch and go, depending if he gets a bit of space or not. Highly erratic making decisions and was alongside Dyantyi as the weakest wing coming off the line, getting caught in no man's land. Doesn't work hard enough to get involved. I'm 50/50 about Jean-Luc, but his brother was only marginally off Thor in 2019, vastly superior to blumbling giraffe Steph. 

Kwagga was very good against Georgia, one of the best Boks. Has only had one quiet test, which isn't bad considering that we are waiting for Steph, Kolisi and Lood to have that breakout test after all these years. 

Steph have already have 10 breakout tests - and  Lood as many as well.   The only problem is you cannot distinguish when players play well and when they don't  - so your opinion is worthless .

The uncompetitive player caused their teams to play well and score tries.    Damian is the best center in the world  at present and has proven it - so what is going on in that chicken head of yours.     

That avatar of yours is right - you have a birdbrain  and a stupid one at that.  

PSDT

https://youtu.be/kBf1zhFXpGI

https://youtu.be/IdoH7SlcYXc

Uncompetitive and a bumbling giraffe ?

Really, hahaha.

Mozart and the kindergarten imbecile missed all of that.  Typical.

Welcome back Dave ….right on cue. I take it you now accept the utterly useless Stampkar was simply not picked by Gatland. Mostert will be our number 5 lock….he was one of our best forwards for the As against the Lions. As usual I might add.

How cute, a tribute video. Hardest man in world rugby? Pick a game, any game - preferably one I haven't already covered - and we shall see the truth of the matter. When plastics get analytical they turn to this? Hilarious. You can visit my post on Steph's 2018 Wellington test, hailed by you and Lügnerin as performance of the century by a Bok. 17th best flank in SH rugby. Ende. 

Perhaps Dud Toit could learn what Schalk also learned….how to offload. 

I repeat how can  a blindsider that averages 1.7 metres a carry, beats a tackle every 10 carries  and never offloads …..be a great ball carrier.

What does he do that isn’t captured in those dismal stats. The floor is open to Dud fans,

World Rugby player of the year meaning it a fair bet to say also best number 7 in world rugby.

Use you eyes Dr Moz. Bye the way how is the mozcroscope doing; is the faulty lens fixed yet! 

Bwahahahhahahahaha they just keep digging! I will soon need a fixed mozcroscope to see he and poor Organhuffer as they are so far down the the rabbit hole!

"Use your eyes"

And see what? Poor attacking output, poor defence. I ask yet more, where is the production? His famous line rush into no man's land is his best trick. New Zealand simply had a three man POD bait him and send a forward into free space with a fully loaded layer of attacking units free to exploit our defence on the back foot. Happens far, far to o often. I'd like to go back and see how many tries resulted from Steph blowing our coverage. Ball in hand he is less than ordinary. Damian and Steph plod the bulk of their possession away for static and predictable phase play. 

Kwagga was the physical loosie of the Georgia test and by far the most dynamic. The logical change would be:

08.Wiese

07.Dan

06.Kwagga

Start Marx and eventually RG. That's a massively physical side with immense breakdown shifting presence and skill. 

Kolisi is a total flatline. 98% of his test career has been loafing around doing nothing. It is too little to deem him outright inadequate, as he just hasn't shown enough participation to be rated. Mr Missing In Action. Most often I see him in the background laying hands on opponents already dealt with by one or more other Boks. It gets logged as a tackle by ESPN and the plastics then call it production... until the film comes to surface like Herr Haifisch. 

Kwagga has had one anonymous showing: Wales 2018. He was a bit patchy against New Zealand in 2019. Other then that, he has shown far more promise than both Steph, Kolisi and "all time Bok" Notshe.

Agreed in Orie. A poor man's Albert. 

Kolisi gets bowled over defensively and on attack. Why do you think he is so often placed out wide in a unit with 13, a wing and/or 15? He can't do the hard yards, Kwagga can. You get the very occasional break that almost always leads to nothing (mostly a turnover as there is no support). Kolisi is the least effective of all of our options at loose forward. Marx, Eben, Thor, Dan, Kwagga, Mostert, especially RG are all vastly superior attacking forwards. RG is our very best attacking forward, and it isn't even close. Kolisi is a bad joke. The greatest quota in South African sports history. 

We had an unconventional side, which was molded together into a team where the team equaled more than the sum of the individual  parts.

It was quite patchy. A spine that carried dead weight, but it wasn't working very often. A 50% record in 2018, that to the 53.8% of 2017. A spluttering, and at times ugly kick game of shallow up and unders where we contested the contact point of the recipient and resulting breakdown. It was a hybrid form of the 2007 Argentina blueprint: Kicks in behind the midfield, chocking them as they were squeezed into congested alleys and immense breakdown power to pressure into mistakes, with swift counter-attack in the transitions. This, but with an emphasis on kicking away anything resembling slow ball, even right on the oppositions 22, and slower developing attacking units/plays/patterns/etc.

At times Kolisi plays like a center...at times Damian does a flanker's job...hybrid team... 

Just a little joke, but then you are one of the no sense of humour crowd.

Dave you have us confused with a group who gives a damn whether you post here or not. What’s actually boring is your groupie like allegiance to proven zeroes like the Deysel twins.

If you are bored….piss off.

Damian a flanker? What are they putting in the water in South Africa? What next?