No, I am not effing kidding you… let’s break it down, he wasn’t good enough to make the Bok team, because he was just unlucky to…wait, unlucky? No, not unlucky, he wasn’t good enough, and what exactly is he then, if a person isn’t the best or the worst, he is average, that is all there is to it, maybe he looks like a great distributor measured against the carthorses of the northern hemisphere, but down south, he’s nothing special, stick your hand in a bucket of water, grab a handful and pull out, the hole that’s left, is how he is missed in South Africa.

I am all for plying your trade overseas if you can’t cut it here, just don’t beeaatch about quotas and not getting opportunities. If you follow the buck, forget about the Bok.

Barrit would never have become a Springbok, I also don’t think the Sharks really miss him that much, they need an outside centre, Whitehead is doing ok at 12.

Players plying their trade abroad can suck a fat one as far as I am concerned, geez the amount of times I have to hold back my gag reflex if I hear something about quotas, I can’t even begin to count. No quota system kept Barrit out of Green and Gold, his average to poor skills can be thanked for that…

G10, can’t wait for your son to do the haka? Great stuff, though I doubt he will ever make it, All Blacks, in fact, most international sport stars have one thing in common, character, which you, being a piss-poor whiner, have none of, in fact you have so little character, you probably robbed one or two of your future generations of theirs.

ronnie cooke. Now that’s a loss

yes yes. haskell is asset. Maybe if more pommies did a sabbatical downundwer to hone their skills.

Robshaw is fitness freak. reminds me of Mike Teague

Not so sure about that.

Robshaw should start at a handful of franchises – tough as nails and very high work rate.

Some of us thought James Haskell wouldn’t make it down South, but look how well he is doing with the Highlanders.

Yes. I think he should have being a Bok when he was with Natal. our Aaron Mauger.