Excellent post. You are spot on the mark. I would back you for coach anyday!

It was only so obvious, with JS at 2 and a real tight head, the difference.

The Italian scrum was retreating, just like at Al Alamein!!!

Backs were great, happy with the boys overall.

I think Bekker is really a great player in the making, but Kankowski I’m not sure. 2 games and only 1 good move otherwise ordinary.

Bring on the Irish I think with a solid scrum and if we do not forget the 15 man game will be a comfortable win!!!

#54 SjamBok: 100% agree

Our coaches seem to think that scrumming is secondary to lineouts and rucks, but the fact is that if used properly, it kills the opposition forwards enough to get them to the next ruck that much slower.

Also the effect of the lowerd morale is enormous. Normally if a player drops the ball, his morale and his team’s morale drop and their heads go down. Now, we all know rugby is a mental game, and that when you are feeling positive, you have more strngth than if you are down. But when the dissapointment of a fumble is replaced with a high because now your team gets a chance to CREAM the Bok pack, that is actually creating a morale boost FFS!! For the whole team!

When Italy got creamed by the Bok pack that first time, their whole attitude changed. They were beaten and they knew it.

I seriously doubt this Smit plan now. We need to get Smittyb back into 2, and sharing game time with Bissie, (with Smitty managed to come on the last 20 minutes and give leadership to close out games, and to manage him until the next RWC), and get decent world class props back into pour game.

Enough of this nonsense.

well done Boka.

BJ….CJ….WP NEL TO COMPETE FOR 3 SPOT.

Wiaan,Beast and Heinke for 1 spot.

A Strauss….Smit….Bismarck and T Liebenberg for 2 spot.

Specialists, no more makeshifts and players out of position.

Boks looked 10 times the team once BJ gave them the go forward….one could sense the Bok relief all over the park….

JPP smile said a million words when the Italian scrum was decimated….after murdering the boks the whole afternoon.

Imagine Brussow and Spies operating behind a solid or even better a dominant scrum….we will dominate i tell you….

So glad this tour has taught us the realitys….

And those bloggers that are saying Bissy must go to flank….once again you are falling into the accomodation selection process….it is wrong and doomed to failure….

Bissy either plays at 2 or from the bench….learn the folly of players out of position….it rarely works….and often costs us matches…

I’ll say what I think. If others don’t agree, they’ll let me know.

I can handle whatever I dish out.

That still does not answer the question.