Steven Kitshoff sheds light on 'stressful' career-threatening injury

Ask yourself, would Razor have made as many changes to his side in the second game v Aussie as Rassie did? That was a real eye-opener, and it betokens a coach who is just much surer of the material he has to work with, and trusts it to perform.

On Jordie Barrett at Lienster, I really hope he can be taught how to tackle with a hard shoulder like Henshaw and Ringrose have. You can see in these highlights he doesn't have the physical presence of those two, or even the ones behind him in NZ like ALB and AJ Lam. I can't really seem him making leaps in other facets if he's already making headlines now.

It's become very obvious you have a real knock on Jordie eh? Obv needs to bulk up to 120 k's!

Wright played every game bar one too, I would have thought consistency was a key factor. Malia only missed the earlier French games.

Exactly where do you get your electric spinach? I want some?

It must be that rich, fertile, volcanic soils?

Joe was soon under more pressure though lol and much bigger tougher job in general ofc.

But he didn't really prove anything this year.

And btw the Champions Cup is played between clubs from SEVEN diff nations, so not domestic.

Aumua was bench the whole season remember. It's crazy that that's hard to recall right because Razor hardly gave him any game time because he'd also miss the first throw etc.

It was deep into the season where he had to play him and bam! misses the first throw, looks nervous. Then on about the 30min mark (for than he got in any sub appearance before now) he starts getting stuck into the opposition, ripping into to tackles and carries and rucks and low and behold, no more setup piece/lineout inaccuracies after that.

Shock horror, who would have though someone not an incumbent could immediately stand up like that!! It's not like his 27 and been in the AB environment for well over 5 years by now!

And quick to tell us how lucky we are to have won.

It would appear as though when you win you’re really f-cken good. And when anyone else wins, they’re just lucky.

And I think you’ve certainly stumbled onto something. Perhaps the psyche of South Africans isn’t about the result, but that we focus on the next thing.

And the psyche of you and your countrymen is that you are worthless unless you win all the time? You certainly seem to dwell on the past to bolster your egos.

South Africans? I guess we don’t like hanging on to the past.

Purvey that thought. Because as I’ve said before - it’s very unlikely that any team will ever be as good as the all blacks 2011 - 2015.

And it’s just as unlikely that any AB team will ever be that good again either. Purvey that painful thought too.