Manie is a total liability…Pollard has to start. Get off to a slow start like that against the ABs and you don’t come back.
Manie is a total liability…Pollard has to start. Get off to a slow start like that against the ABs and you don’t come back.
Wet weather is an exceedingly poor excuse. However, that's all this clown has been for too long. Where was Libbok last week, against Scotland, or the RC? He has shown nothing. Pollard is always the better option in every test. England severely showed how poorly coached this team is, and how inadequate many of the players are. It was an intelligent English approach and our bobbly kicks fishing for bounces and penalties were exposed. As per the bench? It doesn't matter a whole lot. This is the most untalented and poorly coached Bok side I've seen in a WC.
I think rain is forecast for much of next week in Paris, and it is played at 8 pm at night - so Pollard might be the better option.
The Bok forwards did give Manie terrible ball. Pollard appeared to stand further back(less flat) - and that seemed to give him more time
If it is a 6/2 split, Wiese will be on the bench.
The wet conditions might favor the Boks but given how badly the Bok pack has been in teh last 2 games- at this stage, we are relying mostly on winger opportunist tries.
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I still think Manie could start - especially as the conditions are unlikely to be as bad as they were today against England.
It was horrible conditions for this time of the year in France.
However, if Pollard starts he might play the whole game. That could mean the Boks go back to a 6/2 split Bomb Squad