I get so irritated that the Boks get shown up at a breakdown. This should never happen. Not even against the slimy Wallabies who are masters at "dirty" tactics. Year in and year out, we produce superstar loose forwards but still we end up getting dominated by a depleted Scottish side and worst of all, we saw it happening and stood back and watched!
Why?? Because the players on the field were no better than the Scots and we handed them the advantage.
Spies - Fucken pussy. He has always been a flat track bully. He will put 3 tries on the board against Namibia but wont be seen against the AB's. Never heard his name this weekend except for when he dropped that uncontested up and under. Useless. Vermuelen is twice the player Spies is and thats when he is injured!
Kolisi - Had a decent game but he is never going to make an impact against "better" opposition and we must talk about the AB's here. That is the bench mark. We can not play test matches with small, ineffective forwards. If he was a fetcher, maybe but he is not and that is just wasting acrucial position. He adds nothing in terms of the physical game plan the Boks adopt. A liability!
Coetzee - Like Kolisi, a one season wonder. Coetzee is stuck between being bigger than average but smaller than "big" needs to be at test level for the Boks. Ineffective, run of the mill player. Nothing special.
We used to have Schalk and Smith (special players) and that allowed Spies to go awol a bit because of the work they do. We dont have that anymore and we are not playing our next crop of special players (Serfontein is one for the backs). SA needs to trim the fat (as they did with Kanko). Way too many passengers getting a free ride like that soft cock Spies. Baffles me that he is so big yet so ineffective.
We should only have guys like Louw. Alberts, Vermuelen, Labuschagne, Botha, Philip Smit and Elstadt come into contention for the Boks. Brussouw too if he can recapture that form that made him "special!" Test rugby is about the countries elite. Kolisi, Coetzee and co are not elite players. They are run of the mill. Good enough for Italy and Namibia maybe but thats why they dont beat the Boks and AB's!
If 6. Louw, 7. Alberts, 8. Botha can not play, we filter in guys like Labuschagne, Smit, Elstadt. Even Steph Du Toit can do a job whilst he is primed for lock!
I just dont understand why we are still seeing guys like Daniel, Kolisi, Jacques Potgieter, Coetzee and co in and around the Bok squad. Hell, we let guys like CJ Stander move on! Madness. You will never see the AB's play Latimer, Saili, George Whitelock (ex AB), Luke Whitelock in their team as they are not the best they have currently yet all 4 of those guys would have been Boks no doubt!!


