Brenden Nel

He sets them out for the season.

Tells the players exactly who's going to play where.

And with the caveat that if things go according to plan.

Now, mostly the last couple of years it has gone according to plan.

But if something goes wrong, then they change up those plans.

But I can see the strongest team against England, a little bit more experimentation against Scotland, and then probably a younger team playing Wales in the third week as well.

And by that time, he would have had the wider squad for the greatest rivalry sewn up.

And I think the box is in a very good position now.

There aren't really that many places open.

If you think of how they played on that tour in the rugby championship last year, they played two different sides against the All Blacks.

And they can play two different sides at any time.

They played Italy with 14 men and they beat them.

They played France with 14 men and they beat them as well.

So the two different sides and the type of styles they can play depends on the opposition.

And they've got some fabulous young players coming through.

The best part of it is the under-20s are world champions.

And there's three or four of those players that really made the step up into URC.

Last couple of weeks, we had an 18-year-old

um i'm gonna get his name wrong his surname is cia plays for the sharks plays fullback and fly off and he and small guy scrum cap sidestep you know so the african with the scrum cap and the sidestep is deadly anyway but he he scored three big tries in four games and and is is 18 years old you know you've got a sasha feinberg and gomazu the ethan hooker those type of players coming through so i'm not worried about the players and and i think

Russ's plans are there, and he's earned the trust of South Africans.