Lomp

I am not sure he has the focus or professionalism required at test level. He was on the pitch for a few minutes before getting sent off.

In the first half, I think the Boks gave away 1 penalty, which was fantastic discipline

Bit harsh indeed given numerous AB head collisions that were not penalized at all. Loods incident was obviously an accident and not intentional.
Sharkie and Ou Pakster obviously are poor judges of locks. Lood is a very good lock and I hope he has a great game. Brilliant line out artist.

Mentioned it here previously but in my house, years ago, Lomp got the title Nesquik boy.

Jerome Kaino

Another of the passive types. Lood moves like Lurch. Everything he does seems to occur half a second after the situation has already developed, as though he's in a constant state of buffering. If we could see inside his head, I imagine we'd find nothing but black space and that amusingly named little throbber symbol endlessly completing its cycle while the game carries on around him.

Then there are the ghost hands. I've been trying to understand for years how a man with arms that long can have such remarkably little influence on objects travelling through the space immediately in front of him. My working theory is that his reach animation possesses only one active frame. Either that or his hitbox inexplicably stops at the elbows. It would at least explain why balls seem capable of travelling straight through his hands as though somebody forgot to enable collision detection.

Saturday's yellow card was almost the perfect Lood cameo. Barely on the field and already lumbering into the wrong picture, processing events several frames behind everybody else, before being dispatched again. There's something almost fascinating about him. A gigantic Test lock who can simultaneously occupy an enormous amount of physical space while somehow exerting remarkably little presence within it.

Lood is a peculiar specimen, to say the least. Somewhere beneath the lanky exterior, I'm convinced the loading screen is still spinning.

I’d be pleasantly surprised if Lood is up to the necessary pace of the ABs. Looks to me like the type of player who needs a few games to get his engine started

Twice the lock the physically inept Mostert ever was

The problem is there is very little proof, of this
so-called productivity by Lood. The main reason is Lood has been injured more than he's played, and when he has played, he's often been a liability, like the yellow card last weekend.

Franco Mostert was a vital cog in our 23 World Cup campaign. His mobility, line-out work, and his unrelenting defence are a big part of why we won WC 23.

That's not opinion, that's fact. Lood has never been that player. He's been an injury-prone squad member, not a talisman. Unfortunately, the evidence shows Lood has been a liability for years, and Mostert was key to our success.

That being said, Franco is in the final stages of his career. But one thing is bloody certain, so is Lood.

So the very important question we have to be asking ourselves, and especially Doctor Lucky, is why the hell does he pick Lood de Jager when he has lock options like Ruben van Heerden and Cobus Wiese??

Not to even mention the candidates that weren't selected.

I wonder what the Mamparas Union think about R G Snyman,. Doubtless in their idiotic views another useless injury prone Lock.
Lood has had some very impressive outing for the Boks and I sincerely hope he avoids injury and plays great rugby.

Yes there is a future after this series but for now Lood could do a job for us.
I thought Reuben van Heerden had a good first test. His time will come. Cobus Wiese? Not convinced about yet. Lets see more of him later and settle the issue.

Big fan of Cobus Wiese as an enforcer type lock, was very impressive in his last outing

It’s a travesty that Ruben v Heerden was not retained in the Bok squad after a good debut

Ruan Vermaak of the Bulls is another who should be in the equation

Mostert was always a physical liability - should never have played a single test. Not convinced by the physically inept Nortje either but he is a better athlete and has better skills than Mostert ever had