Ireland centre Bundee Aki in talks with Toulon

Your clear implied comment that Wada compliance will provide a greater challenge to future SA RWC success says otherwise regarding their performance in ‘27.

Always fun to see posters hoisted by their own petard!

Now who exactly are these “SYRINGE BOKS” you refer to, or will you deflect and run for cover yet again…

Fast Forward to Durban, the Boks could not score a single try? Led 24-19 with 65 minutes to go, led 24-22 with 40 seconds to go with a scrum, of all things in Ireland’s 22, yet end up losing the game. At the end of that series they had won 3 out of the 4 halves of rugby, yet drew the series.

Who could forget the infamous quarterfinal loss to the Wallabies in the 2011 WC Quarterfinal? Desperation as the time ticked on, in came the small things and the skillset failed.

The Boks have almost got it all, this one thing, as Eddie Jones said back in 2007, if the Boks get it, they might become unplayable. I think Rassie have realized as much by the failures of previous Bok teams. Boks Vs Robbie Deans, Heyneke Meyer VS All Blacks, 4 Straight Defeat to Wales? All i am saying, is that it isn’t readily apparent to me, that the Boks have it yet, and if they do, maybe it should ascend pass other nations? However, what would the school, domestic rugby philosophies not do to hinder it?

Gone are the extreme ends of the spectrum represented by Heyneke Meyer’s Bash Ball and Alister Coetzee’s flying with the fairies, as neither work for the Boks. It is obvious, that the gold lies in the combination of Mallet and to an extend Rassie. Not sure one coach would be able to change the mindset of a Rugby Nation, and to help me not hear my Bulls Fanatic neighbor shout “ Vok hul op!”

I feel I’ve signed my life away.

What’s undeniable is that Barrett is playing alongside much better players at Leinster than he would in NZ. And he is playing in more difficult conditions - from the Highveld in SA to freezing conditions in Scotland - which prepares you better for Test rugby than hopping over the Tasman for another game of touch rugby.

In stead of having a go at the NH you should just say thank you for making Barrett an even better player. We’ll do the same for Rieko Ioane. You’re welcome.