Late surge sees Stormers beat Munster to climb off URC bottom spot

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Players not considered due to injury or contract status

Ofa

Darry

ALB

Caleb Tangitau

Stevenson

There are lots of other names being talked about and you might get one of those selected.

Some for me would be;

Riley Higgins

TK Howden

Flanders

Tanielu Tele’a

ENS

Cullum Harkin

But theres a couple of interesting others too, just a lot of really good performances this year by new guys that you dont know how to really rate/expect. A lot of those names will shift position to be utilized at a high level of course, so order in positions doesn’t mean likelyhood.

Not many standout centers this year for you guys?

Yes McKay was an excellent foil for Thorn with his more cerebral approach. Reds prob improved more in BT’s first two seasons than they have under Les.

The current lot should be well deep enough in the forwards to sruvive their injury list, but they don’t seem to have the minds to change things when the plan doesn’t work. The trio you mention [JOC, Hamish and Hegarty] represented a lot of good rugby I.Q and that isn’t there right now.

That ‘golden generation’ of forwards did not approach their task with the same SR attitudes which had been tried and failed so many times previously. Under Rassie, the emphasis was diametrically opposite.

He has always been careful to keep the Kiwi influence firmly at arm’s length. Select from overseas, leave SR, shift north. And Tony Brown is just one room in a very big Springbok mansion.😉

He’s an oxymoron, when he’s in space and can try and put his foot down he finds someone else to pass to, and when he’s about to be tackled he never chooses to pass to the guy in space he just runs into the tackler.

I wish he was just a hungus like you say.