You’d expect the Bok side to be loaded with Lions players. However just seven Lions players made the cut. Warren Whiteley is injured and Ruan Dreyer, Ruan Combrinck, Rohan Janse van Rensburg and Faf de Klerk – all previous Springboks – are out of favour.
Rohan Janse van Rensburg, Jamba Ulengo and Uzair Cassiem will make their Springbok debuts against Wales in the Principality Stadium on Saturday.
What is the most worrying aspect about the 2016 Springbok team thus far?
The Springboks are still struggling to infuse, and centrally involve, sufficient numbers of players of colour to provide solid assurance that their “50 percent black” plan for the 2019 World Cup is an attainable goal.
For whatever reason, Damian de Allende has laboured to impose himself since his belated introduction to the southern hemisphere season after a serious ankle injury in Japan.