Time to create squad depth

When the Boks toured with a mid-week team, it was better for experimentation against inconsequential games that are never part of the history books.
Or even organizing SA A/B teams to play local opposition, or against each other.

With tests, they have to put a team on the park that can win.
This team needs some established combinations, otherwise, it could get embarrassing. 
If the wheels fall off due to players not panning out, and new combinations not working - a settled opposition team could win with a huge victory.

What people remember is that the Boks won the Lions tour but finished third in the 4 nations. 

Some junior players fail as they move up each level. 
(Juniors- Currie Cup- SuperRugby - International). They need to earn man-of-the-match performances at each level before playing international. 

You’re right….it’s a crazy idea. We have just finished third in the RC, that’s the kind of luxury reserved for winners.

Of course you are confident. You must have been one of those who never saw Saracens and Leicester coming. Your arrogance blinds you.

Here's the deal: You throw a group of novices in the cauldron together and they typically fail. They have a thoroughly negative experience, get slated back home and we don't really take away anything constructive.

To add insult to injury, your sides are bolstered by some pretty poor selections.

No team that was convincingly beaten by Oz should be giving themselves selection luxuries. We need to find a winning style that doesn’t rely on luck….like the 50/50 games against Wales, the Lions and the ABs.

We might have made a bit of progress in the last NZ test. Time to build on that, supplement the squad where we need to and have test level talent.

Accelerating a bunch of untested seuntjies into the national team is Destroyli-esque. And we all know how that ended.

Acutally, Australia should have won the first test comfortably. They blew 4 tries. Do the math Unteromlett. The second All Black test was the same. Don't kid yourself, they werent up for the second test as much as we were, yet still exposed our soft defence. We haven't won a single game where the opposition didn't blow our defence apart and expose us, Georgia aside. Factor in the outrageous ref bias, and you don't have side that is dominant at this level. 

Building squad depth to do what.

SA rugby  mindset and direction is known. They want to keep the illusion going.

And the Autumn tour will be determined by the opposition, noticeably that SA rugby play three games while other teams play four games.

SA rugby are not on a course of building. They are on a course of controlling damage, trying to hide their incoming end.