What Rassie Erasmus has done

Great post Chip and I agree with most of that I would have liked to have seen less of the fringe 33 plus year olds and more youngsters in their places especially at centre and lock

Ja that is true and for me the vast majority of the 52 players he has used this year are spot on - there are only a handful he should have moved on from as there are better youngsters he could have blooded We have a wonderful core of experience in Kolbe, Arendse, Kriel, Am, de Allende, Esterhuizen, Willemse, Pollard, Faf, Kitshoff, Ox, Marx, Bongi, Malherbe, Eben, RG, Lood, PSDT, Kolisi, Kwagga and Wiese The rest of the players selected around this core should be with an eye on the future

...DDA of course being atrocious again yesterday. Knocking balls on, crab rubbing, failing to much/anything. Notice when Pollard came on, how he kept getting over the advantage line and setting up momentum plays for the Boks. My girlfriend, who isn't a rugby noob but certainly doesn't follow it as avidly as I do said the following... "Pollard doesn't run right at the defence. He steps into the gap and draws two defenders. DDA just puts his head down and runs at the man in front of him." And that's so damn true. It's then claimed that DDA plays like that because that's what the coaches want him to do. Really? Then why don't AE or Pollard play like that when they come on? I hope DDA was given this soft game because the plan is to drop him next year. There can be no backline progress when there is a black hole at 12. The sooner Willemse gets in there the better. Also, Rassie had blooded too many players in too many nothing games and too little comes of many of the players. What is the point? Yes, a swimming pool needs have a deep end. But is there any benefit to having it be infinitely deep? The Boks should have a known best-in-position squad. And then have guys lined up in case of injury/retirement. At this point it's a travelling circus that is all "creative" while flexing on lesser opposition...but in any and that means something there are very few changes. Who is our replacement 12? What about 13? We finally blooded a new 2 yesterday...against a nothing Wales. Van Staaden was brought it and didn't perform as expected....yet he has been retained at the expense of other guys that could have been given a chance against somebody better than Wales. Do we really need every 9 from every franchise at the Boks? Locks...it's Eben, RG and Mostert...and who else has been given a meaningful chance? ...then AE, WHY IS HE THERE? He gets a shot against Scotland but isn't trusted against England and then Pollard is on the bench against a nothing Wales. Again, what's the point? If AE has been there this long, and you still never give him a big game, while there are numerous young 12s that could be tried? Oh, and yay...Hannekom, probably the most exciting loosie to come through of late, is given the last 40 in a nothing match. Again, what is the point? The problem for me, is exactly like the Welsh game we lost a couple of years ago. What do we learn from those games? You chuck a bunch of random people together, and call it an opportunity. But it's a team full of randoms. So what are you gonna learn? Who is the best at navigating random events? To my mind, you learn a lot more by actually selecting your best side most of the time, and then subbing players into the mix at a reasonable pace. Then can actually measure if there are up to scratch. Measurement is done relative to something. But when the team is totally random...against what are you measuring the players you are giving "opportunities" to? There is such a thing as too much tinkering and there is certainly such a thing as having a squad that is far too big.

Bullshit DA was good and that try set up against England was best moment of the tour DA is a class act

And the fact that you guys fail to see he is only a tractor, also needs treatment …. Begin Sommer nou daai olofberg Drink :) The only noteworthy thing he did the whole tour, is that break….the pass was a hatchet job above Kolbe,s head. Only because Cheslin is such a super athlete, he managed to Still catch that ball and go and score… Dr. Allendig is bog ordinary and needs replacement 5 years ago already….most of the time like plum says, he runs straight for contact.