Meyer gives the finger to the redevelopment process.

On Monday I wrote a piece about how we should all appreciate the Bok redevelopment process before we get too animated with our criticism. These sentiments of course worked both ways where I insisted that coach Heyneke Meyer should do the same. His answer, well here it is below in the form of the Bok team to play New Zealand on Saturday.

Springboks

15: Zane Kirchner 14:  Bryan Habana 13: Jean de Villiers 12: Frans Steyn 11: Francois Hougaard 10: Morne Steyn 9: Ruan Pienaar 8: Duane Vermuelen 7: Willem Alberts 6: Francois Louw 5: Juandre Kruger  4: Flip van der Merwe  3: Jannie du Plessis 2: Adriaan Strauss  1: Beast Mtawarira

Replacements:

16: Tiaan Liebenberg 17: Dean Greyling 18: Andries Bekker 19: Marcel Coetzee 20: Johan Goosen 21: Pat Lambie 22: Juan de Jongh

I’m not going to rehash the points I raised in Monday’s piece , but suffice to say that with Meyer persisting with the selections of Morne Steyn and Zane Kirschner, he is opening the door for people to have a full go now. And this time I totally agree with them. Also, I don’t think dropping our best tackler to the bench is such a wise call, but perhaps Coetzee isn’t 100%

Looking on the positive side (as we always try to do), we have a strong bench. But Heyneke hasn’t really given us much indication that he sees the bench as part of his ‘game plan’.

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