The Boks also need to play the match situation better than they did on Saturday. Kearney and Bowe are superb under the high ball as a rule so why keep punting it to them? They are not Sivivatu and Rockocoko! It worked in the 3N against the ABs but that doesn’t make it alright for other teams. How many times did the Boks kick away decent possession? When Pienaar replaced Steyn I thought that would signal the end of the negative Blou Bul tactics but it didn’t! Some variation Boks please.

You need to take your medication…right now is a good time!!

Is it stupidity or arrogance when one thinks they are higher than the other.
Maybe you played at a higher level but you could have been the useless player in the team that kept letting the team down.

Ranger may have been the player who was excellent that made the local team look professionals.

Have you met Ranger, have you played against Ranger?

If not…then you are childish!!

But this counts for nothing is you can DO BUGGER ALL with said possession…

And the complete lack of variation in our game plan can either be laid at the feet of the coaches, or Morne Steyn. Lack of variaton makes us easy to defnd against. You need tomake a team expect ioe thing , and produce another.

As soon as Ruaan Pienaar came on, and started varying play down the wings, it kept them guessing and we made good ground. In fact within two phases we nearly had a try by Beast.

But did Pienaar play like that under orders, or because he has a better sense of variation and what is required of an international flyhalf? Did Morne play like that under orders, or because he was too lazy to change play?

I cannot figure it out myself.

*&*(*^*&%*^!!!!!!!

What does this tour tell us about the Boks? Not a lot. SA have never been that good at travelling have they? FWIW I would use 2010 to blood the next gen of player, Bekker for Matfield is my bolter for PDV selection shocks next season. Vic is an awesome player but he won’t make 2011 in peak condition so Bekker must play now. Smit may choose to retire which I am fine with, what a player and what a leader but he also won’t make 2011 in my view.

Boks are the team of 2009 and there isn’t a blogger alive who would argue otherwise, this tour changes nothing!

Catleya – nice thinking.

My little take. We lack super coaching. Ireland and ou Gert saw us coming and while we spent the week developing the scrum; we forgot the lineout. I’ll go with Ranger – rather a weakish scrum than hopeless lineout!

We need to realise that the world moves on. Kick and chase worked against NZ and Oz who had some inexperienced players (Oz) and weren’t expecting it (NZ). So their return tactics have sharpened up. Kearney is fantastic under the high ball and we have few real chasers (Kirchner did well). We let him get the ball then tackle, tackle, tackle. Not so clever.

Like Jake’s rush defence SA need to move on. We have many excellent players (despite wot grant, skoppie et al rant about). All they need is coaching. PdV is an excellent motivator but we need a few people as tacticians, analysts, individual coaches (not a woodward tribe though). DM and GG are good but not excellent or that experienced.

1 Beast/ Wian du Preez
2 Smit/ Bismarck
3 BJ/ WP Nel
4 Bakkies/ Anton van Zyl
5 Mallet/ Becker
6 Brussouw/ Potgieter
7 Smith/ Deysel
8 Spies/ Alberts
9 Fourie du Preez (if he stops kicking)/ Jano Vermaak
10 M Steyn (no choices)/ Peter Grant???
11 Habana/ Nokwe or Chavanga
12 Jean de Villiers/ Wynand Olivier
13 Jacques Fourie/ Juan de Jongh
14 Lionel Mapoe/ JP Pietersen
15 Frans Steyn/ Louis Ludik

Some contentious choices but nothing is set in stone.
You could include a fit Heinke vd Merwe, CJ, Sarel Pretorius, Mvovo perhaps for future, Perhaps Ebersohn but size an issue, Aplon an option to consider – his defence in CC semi was huge, Juries perhaps, and really on current form its ridiculous excluding Stefan Terblanche

Pistols at dawn!!