For me I am concerned that far too many of our players are the wrong side of 30 and it’s a classic case of the same old, same old
Take the centre pairing for instance - are we really going to have DA and Jessie as our WC starting centres next year?
So for me this series is either going to be the wake up call Rassie needs if we get exposed with our aging team or it will reinforce the fact that he sticks with his geriatrics
Personally I’d much rather see Fassi at 15 with Willemse at 12 and Moodie at 13. Reinach should be nowhere near the match 23 but unfortunately we will see the old pedantic geriatric feature on Saturday unfortunately
The team will be:
Willemse
Kolbe
Kriel
DA
Arendse
Sacha
Reinach
Ox (if fit)
Marx
Thomas
Eben
Nortje
de Villiers
PSDT
Wiese
With a bench of Wessels Steenkamp Wilco Cobus Wiese Hanekom Williams Libbok AE
Or pretty close - we might see 7/2 with v Staaden in there - Rassie loves him. There is talk of Porthen ahead of Wilco which is stupid for the first test - maybe later in the series if things are working out.
