So, as the WC starts, they'll apparently know there best side.
Great...then I guess we using our group-stage matches to build synergy...
I'd have thought you have your team ready by the RC, then give them those pre WC matches to get things together and make sure that by the first WC game you're already playing how you want to.
Who knows, perhaps there's some genius strategy at play here but I can see the point of the side going to Argentina.
Well, they are so fixated on the world cup winners that there are hardly any room for new players. I think half this team should not go to the world cup.
Most them are a yard off the pace and their on reputation. All world cup winning teams makes the same mistake.
They haven't created a system that promotes compition. You only get dropped if you fuck the help or destroy your career yourself with roids etc.
But we will see the same players 4 years later.
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Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber pardoned his troops' iffy showing against Argentina on the basis that his mix-and-match selection strategy is depriving them of rhythm.
South Africa, despite boasting a large contingent of stalwarts, were once again much changed from the loss to the All Blacks a fortnight ago and the lack of cohesion was evident in a showing where the team was wayward at times.
"The easiest way to get cohesion is to have continuity in selection and that's probably where we've been putting the players under pressure," said the Bok mentor.
"If you look at the amount of minutes Bongi Mbonambi played compared to Malcolm Marx a week ago and how we've evened it out now by letting Malcolm start, you'll see there's some parity now in terms of match-fitness. And that's what we're trying to do overall.
"It's about getting everybody back into the mix, playing rugby again on an international stage. However, every week [to date] they have had to contend with a different hooker, prop, loose trio and so on, which affects rhythm.
"As we get closer to the World Cup, team selection will be more consistent."
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Not sure why a completely different team is going to Argentina, given Rasnaber has stated that consistency in selection is the cause of the problem.
They only have 3 games prior to the world cup, so it is not much time to settle combinations.
Pollard may be out of the world cup if he does not get fit soon.