All Blacks to field new starting winger and converted flanker against Ireland

I don’t doubt Rassie’s ability to get it right frustratingly enough.

It is going to be a hard fought series. If anything the Boks have shown that the regular squad members slot in pretty seamlessly.

Rassie does now have the depth in most positions, where if we have injuries the cover has been in the system, and in most cases has faced serious opposition.

Hopefully that bites them in the butt👍😅

Our last two victories against Rassie are largely down to taht factor.

Fair enough 👍🏻

Love all those guys. I’m from the same club and small town as Mex and my dad actually did some building work for him way back in the day. But like i said, I don’t buy it as a legit reason to why we have fallen behind. That’s just my opinion. It’s an easy correlation to make. But when you look in to it I don’t think it stacks up. There was always a couple of good SA teams and a couple of rubbish ones. How that turns the ABs into the world’s best, it’s a long bow to draw.

V’aai isn’t a loose forward, especially a loose forward suited to the ABs quick-ruck, high-tempo style under Rennie. A truely mystifying selection.

That 23 matchday squad will get a hiding in SA, it lacks the forwards size and mongrel to match the Boks while its centres cannot tackle the Boks counterparts of Esterhuizen and De Alenda. The ABs’ back three do not defend either

I've been saying for years I'd rather Jordan on the wing. But now that we have moorby playing so well I'd like to see him on the wing with Jordan at fb. Have our fullback playing more in the wide channels. At the moment it looks like dmac has been playing more as a second playmaker. Means we effectively have 3 playmakers in those narrow channels with dmac, Love and jordie. Love and jordie worked so well together for the canes why disrupt that by shoehorning another playmaker in there.

What a weird team. It’s not getting any better I’m afraid.

I like that wallace has been dropped. Don't perform? Well, there’s a guy right behind you has had earned an opportunity.

Now wallace will have to go back and prepare himself again, look at everything, and make sure that when he gets another opportunity he is ready to nail it.

And he will because hes the man.

Darry is a power lock, they want to have a look at Patrick. That one can’t ve based on performance.

The first teams named by Rennie show that they are not very far removed from Razor’s selections.

That is more or less what I was saying several months ago.

The problem was not with the players being selected, because the best players were being picked. It was clearly the confusing game plans, that lacked real consistency and which were not suited to the players chosen. Rennie is not making a revolution in terms of selection. He has simply brought Love into the team, which is something Razor should have done, and he seems to have a much better grasp of the game plans and the direction he wants to take the team in.

I hope this third Test will be a genuinely strong performance that confirms the improvements we have seen in the first two Tests, even though everything has not been perfect.

If Vaa’i is considered best option due to height then is he considered a better loose forward than Parker who is a whole 1cm shorter? Or Segner who is next tallest? Gotta trust the coaches for now but we haven't seen any of these converted second rowers work for ABs at test level yet.