The Scapegoat Boks

1. Naff De Klerk
He has gone back to making pointless up and unders'  that are never contestable.
The grubber by Faff with an overlap five metres from the line was arguably the worst decision ever made by humanity.

Boks looked so much better with Smith taking the right options- and making up an under's contestable.

2. Little Kwagga 
He is not a starter, just an impact player. He appears to have lost his speed. He is not strong enough to carry the ball up in traffic when there is less space. He is not much of a fetcher either, at least not as a starting player

3. Bongi
It has been a long time since has made an impact. His lineout throws are just not good enough.
Marx made an immediate impact at the breakdown. 

4. Flab Malherbe 
I think he is done at test level.

5. Kolisi
He is not a fetcher. Good in open-field play, but then he should be playing at 8. 

6. Pollard
Questions mark still arise about his ability to create space for his outside backs. The Pollard/Delande axis is too predictable. It can be one, but not both of them in the same starting team.

If Sasha Zulu had moved to 10 or 12, would it have been enough to score a try against Ireland- instead of just relying on the boot of Pollard.

Fully agree. Rassie needs to pick his young guns now and play them against Portugal and in the championship. Time to do the hard bit and start dropping the old guys. You can see they lack energy. This philosophy of emptying the tank is 50 /50. We saw what happened when Mostert got injured. The whole bomb squad got disjointed. It is great when it pays off but Ireland was in full control and patient. What a play by their sub 10. Two drop goals. 

Kolisi has never been an 6, he is a 7 like Dyamani, but when it comes to getting stuck in he skips around the ruck pretending to play. 

Kwagga has now showed 3 times that he can't receive the ball. Never wins the collision. Where as Dorris was a mountain and hard to bring down. Kolisi and Kwagga doesn't work. 

Dad needs to go no and sell his Speedos. The guy had his time and is back to his erratic play under Coetzee.

Rassie hasn't won more than 5 games in a row, fact. 

W - NZ pre world cup

W - Sco 

W - Ton

L - Ire

W - Fra

W - Eng

W - NZ

W - Wal

W - Ure

L - Ire

Where as Farrel lost only 3 out of 25 games. I can understand why they feel hard done by given SA record and then you look at theirs. 

We love you Rassie, winning world cups give you your invincible Halo, buy please do a Mallet and give us 18 in a row

How the hell did things go wrung at 12 today.  He got very few balls from passses which he got 3 times in the match - he got the ball 3 times and wirth one he moved the Irsish defense meters forward and got the ball back safely for the atatck is to be cointinue.

If there is inmdeed a problem in the backline it started with De Klerk - his performance today would cost any team victory,     That dribble he tried virtually destgroyed a potental ttry opportunity.   His boxkicking was atrociously inaccurate,   In box kicking the kicks must ber followed up his was aimede at where the Irsih players are virtually.   This is likely to be his last test.  

Pollard's kicks at goal was phenominal - his out of hamd kicking was poor and inaccurate and just handling fielding of the ball waas extra poor.   His passing game was  also slow and inmeffective.

Kriel got a lot of open field  balls to carry and all of them died with him when tackled.   He rarely passed any ball he received and the wings were starving as a result.     

The younhgster that wss most impressive today was Feinberg-Ngomezulu.    He is not a full-   back or wing - but he tried and succed as a top class player even in unfcamilar positions.    think that he is going to be the future flyhalf 

Now back to Willie - I think that this injury will cause him to be moved to the bench.  It is too big a risk to start with him..  My point is actually the older playes get the more often thery get injured and the more difficult it is for players to recover.