South Africa should seriously consider calling up Daan Human for the tour by the British and Irish Lions later this year.
Stephen Nell writes in Die Burger that, that was the advice offered on Monday from former Springbok tighthead prop Cobus Visagie, who warned that South African rugby should jealously guard its intellectual property.
Visagie and Human both left Western Province to join overseas clubs.
“South African rugby’s scrumming has gone backwards because players are discarded too quickly,” said Visagie.
“The best South African loosehead is Daan Human. He is doing brilliantly at Toulouse and is one of the best paid loosehead props in Europe. I definitely think he can play a role against the Lions and it does not have to be at the expense of any of the younger players. Daan scrums well and works hard on the field.
“I rate Beast Mtawarira and actually think Brian Mujati should be a loosehead prop.
“Heinke van der Merwe scrums around you. It’s something referees are going to come down on. The question is also how good the rest of his game (apart from scrumming) is.”
Visagie believes not even the Bulls possess a feared scrumming unit.
“The Sharks are the only South African team that are solid on their own ball,” he said.
Saracens director of rugby Eddie Jones slammed the Stormers scrum after Sunday’s game, which the South Africans won 43-33 at Newlands.
Visagie, however, was not that critical.
“The Stormers were unlucky to lose two tightheads. They also did not fare any worse than other teams against us. We’ve done worse things to other teams’ scrums. I also know scrumming is something the Stormers want to address,” said Visagie.
Stormers’ assistant coach Gary Gold saw the positive, which is that young loosehead prop Wicus Blaauw slotted in well at tighthead.
“We learned a lot in the process. We now know we have a fourth option at tighthead. Wicus did very well against a strong Saracens scrum,” said Gold.
“We also managed to get quick ball at 90% of the scrums. We scored a few excellent tries. We are not the coaching team who should be worried.”
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I deleted my version of this article (even though mine was up 1st) 🙄
@wpw (Comment 1) :
Fool, you shoulda deleted mine then.
Daar’s nie pille nie. 😉
Sure thing Cobus – if Beast is rated by you, why do we need Daan?
We have more problems on the TH side anyway.
Butmaybe he is right – we should always choose a Human over a Beast. 😳
@Big Fish (Comment 4) : Reminds me of the front rowers for the Bulls a few years back. They were playing a Kiwi side and the Kiwi commentators loved Bosman and Marius Hurter.
“Bossman and Hurter”
@Big Fish (Comment 4) : 😈
@Baldrick (Comment 5) :
To err is Human, to forgive (Steve)Devine.
But to err with Divine Brown is not human!
@Baldrick (Comment 8) :
Especially if you are doing the nasty with Liz Hurley! 😯
@Big Fish (Comment 9) : Maybe Divine was more of a giver than Liz. 😉
@McLovin (Comment 10) : That does not make it ok.Anything from Liz Hurley is just fine.You watch Bedazzled dude?
@PJLD (Comment 11) : Yip. Wonder why her acting career never took off.
@PJLD (Comment 11) : If you have Liz all the time, the novelty will wear off sooner or later.
Ask Hugh. 😈
@McLovin (Comment 12) :
Not enough nude scenes. 😉
@Big Fish (Comment 14) :
@McLovin (Comment 13) :
Ask me? 😕
@Big Fish (Comment 16) : Didn’t know you and Liz are/were that close. 😉
@McLovin (Comment 17) :
Or did you mean ask you?
@Big Fish (Comment 18) : I see…..
Miss Hurley and I have never been intimate. 😐
@McLovin (Comment 19) :
Bru, I still can’t get over your avatar. Eish!!! 😯
@McLovin (Comment 19) :
If only she knew what she was denying herself… 😉
@wpw (Comment 20) : Attractive isn’t it?
😉
@Big Fish (Comment 21) : hehehehe. If only…. 🙄
@Big Fish (Comment 21) : I bet she’s full of shit (more than your average female) and a cold fish. 😉
@McLovin (Comment 22) :
Very… distinctive. 😆
@McLovin (Comment 24) :
Probably – most hot mommas are.
Would still like some QT witht her though.
@McLovin (Comment 24) :My goodness, Liz’s got a fabulous body… I bet she shags like a minx.
@PJLD (Comment 26) : Is she all natural?
@PJLD (Comment 26) : A minx? ❓
I do know what a minx is, just wasn’t aware of their legendary shagging ability.
😉
Take it yoiu gave Austin Powers a miss ❓
@McLovin (Comment 29) :
PJLD would shag anything if it lay still long enough.
@Big Fish (Comment 31) : 😆 😆
@PJLD (Comment 30) : Haven’t seen any. 😳
Did watch Iron Man last night & that Paltrow women looks nogals cute with red (ish) hair.
@Big Fish (Comment 31) : hehehe
😆
Paltrow womAn. 😳 Only one of her as far as I know.
The Sharks are the only South African team that are solid on their own ball,” he said
I was just wondering how I forgot to comment on this little gem and then I read the comments on this thread. 😳 Seems scrumming of a different kind was the change topic. 😛