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Rod McCall (65)
Schalk is way past his best. Kriel will be the solution but we still have to lost vs Italy before he'll get his chance. Clearly we are not close to the Iere, England is going to klap us even harder.Ironically, that doos started the problem by not blooding any new talent.
But hey, relax, this was one game. I didn't see you panic like this when Jake White lost to a crappy France at Newlands in 2006, or Ireland away, with a very decently aged team.
It's easy to over-react. By the way, the biggest problem was Marcell Coetzee needing to do most of the hard grafting himself, with Mohoje pretending to be a passenger quota and nothing else. I saw him make 2 carries, and probably make 5 metres in total all match. When Schalk came on, big difference once again.
And you cannot blame the coach for quotas.
Mohoje gets lost when the match becomes increasingly physical. Best solution would be to drop Serfontein, play JP at 13 and replace Mohoje with Schalk. We all know Schalk can go flatout for 80 minutes.
Sad thing is thats where we'll be in a years time and I cant see us making the play offs with the likes of Bakkies, Matfield, Burger, JdV, JPP, Habana. Hell they were past it in the last WC. That time you blamed the coach, now the qoutas?