I don't dispute that he is not good enough for the jersey, but I do wonder if he was really the worst. He is a name that is pushed out there, but in the past, he has out-gunned all of the popular names, especially Lood! I haven't had time to watch the game yet, but I'll watch him closely when I do. It seems that this game has been a rude awakening, mostly because of this mythical 60 minutes against New Zealand. Many were ready to peddle the narrative of the Bomb Squad etc, but the reality was that NZ was more emphatically superior in that second half. It wasn't hard to see this poor performance coming. Some say it's being "too negative" etc, but I simply see it as calling a spade a spade. The Boks have 0 good performances this season. This goes much, much deeper than Orie.
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was useless yesterday,
I rewatched some of the game and he was by far the worst player on the pitch. He botched lineouts, and was just getting in the way at rucks.
It would arguably have been better to have played with 14 men.
His lack of physicality was exposed by the Argentinians who were very aggressive at the ruck.