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He is not in form, hence his early departures from the field.
I have seen Kolisi have absolutely brilliant games for the Boks, but typically in looser games with more space. Sometimses he is the invisible man.
Kwagga and Deon Fourie are both on the bench to contribute to the breakdown. (Turnovers, ball retention and slowing opposition ball).
Vermuelen needs to start as he is still our most effective ruck player, in the absense of Marx.
If the Boks have a good lead, Bongi will proably play for less time with Fourie going to hooker.
On tv you don't really get pitch perspective. I was at our first 3 pool games. He spends so much time in backfield 'play' loitering and spectating he contributes very little to our forward effort wh. I am always glad to see the back of him at 50 min when we have ticked the political box. I'm going to the semi and Final and hope for an equally short contribution. No matter what his form he is never going to be dropped. After all who would lead the national anthem.
It appears Bongi takes over the captaincy when Kolisi leaves the field.
Bongi is certainly a worthy contender for captaincy, but his skin colour also helps.
If Bongi was made starting captain, perhaps Kolisi will not start.
Although, I think that would happen after the world cup- as it would create a potential drama for the Boks with the politicians.
"It appears Bongi takes over the captaincy when Kolisi leaves the field"
Funny Bongi story
Whilst playing France, the team were still busy discussing whether Pollard was going to take that long range kick inside our own half...... when Bongi just goes up to the ref and tells him that we are going for posts ....
He then turns to Pollard and screams "For South Africa !!" ..... and walks aways
Pollard nailed it
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because he is useless and the biggest imposter in the bok team.
Just watch the Fra v SA game again. He made one good tackle. Most of the time he was just running around in circles. When he did try to make a tackle, he got bounced and Malherbe had to complete the tackle for him. He had one chance to poach the ball, but then got wrestled off the ball by Du Pont. We had a couple of balls turned over on our ruck. Kolisi failed on 2 occasions to secure the ball and the French player easily got over the ball. He had no touches on the ball, maybe knocking it backwards. He constantly has his hands on his hips, always away from contact. He does cover ground and put pressure on the attackers, but didn't do anything in this game at all, neither has he done anything the whole World Cup.
Fortunately he is only for 45 min and doesn't cost any points. A 37 year old did a better job than him