RUCK N ROLL
GAVIN RICH: Erasmus could play Am and Kriel in same team to solve midfield dilemma
There are very few positions in the Springbok starting team where Rassie Erasmus doesn’t have several viable players to choose from
Warren Whiteley is still on the injured list and so is the other captain from 2017, Eben Etzebeth, but Rassie Erasmus should feel he is in a rare position for a Springbok coach of having more headaches caused by who to leave out or who to include in his team. The Springboks start their 2018 campaign against Wales in Washington in six weeks and apart from scrumhalf and possibly No8, depending on the injury to Whiteley, there are very few positions in the starting team where Erasmus doesn’t have several viable players to choose from. The Lions, and to a lesser extent the Bulls, are forging ahead of the rest in the South African conference, but all the local Super Rugby teams have individual players who should be impressing Erasmus and causing him sleepless nights as he mulls over his many options.The Stormers are last in the South African conference, but Pieter-Steph du Toit is playing out of his skin — not as a lock, but as a blindside flank. The Sharks have been as inconsistent as t...
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