Wallaby Josh Kemeny starts at No6 for Saints as post-Lawes era begins

France bombed out of the World Cup early (and finished second at the 6 Nations) because they didn’t have a handful of key players available.

France has a lot of depth - but their A team players are miles ahead of their B team players.

Not difficult to understand either because, despite the size of their league, they import players from around the world in key positions.

For France it’s about club commitments being more important than international duty. As well as timing.

South African domestic teams regularly compete without springboks being available.

Players like Cameron Hanekom, Jordan Hendrikse, Boogieman, Henco van Wyk should be incentivised to keep playing well. And get a shot.

2. Same answer as you - now is the time though, at the beginning of a 4 year cycle.

But to to draw the conclusion that your B Team is better than our B Team because your B Team beat another team is childish.

However, I believe Razor is being myopic in his team selections and game plan. This year was the year to try different things. Everyone would accept losses this year if he was really trying different combos

But in reality he's not... I think Ioane is an amazing winger. He's a good defender at center but he creates nothing at center because for 3 years now his passing and distrubution skills have remained poor. But Razor persists and doesn't give Proctor a chance. The problem is compounded for our centers because Jordie is not a good distributor either - so in the end the ball rarely gets to the wing unless DMAC does a cross field kick. Jordie and/or Reiko bashing the ball up is just so damn predictable.

Scooter is a good player, but after 9 games his leadership must be under question. Furthermore in the 7 games he has captained, I believe the leadership burden has affected his game.

Is Scooter a world class 4 - absolutley not. But unlike Rassie who converted PSDT to the blindside role - Razor has not contemplated doing the same with Scooter.

When will these "pundits" realize that Argentina has no choice as there is NO professional league at home.

There is SLAR (Latin America, full of second class Argies) and MLR (USA with plenty of Argies too), but NO pro league at home. Thereby, all Pumas players come from France/England and maybe Italy.

Some "graduate" from SLAR to Europe via Pumas apprenticeship, but they don't play at home.

By the way, Nick, how do you see Santi Grondona playing? He has not been selected lately. But back row is where the Pumas have plenty of good options, so it has to be hard.