Jan-Hendrik Wessels

Marnus van der Mavel was an intriguing experiment that didn't seem to go anywhere.

Jan Hendrik Wessels was an intriguing experiment that doesn't really seem to have launched in terms of his hooker time.

And then it's the campaigners, the URC campaigners.

It's Grobis and André Geventer.

So it's not just a bunch of people who look like, you know, Sio Kolisi in all flanks.

Why would you do it? You would just pick everyone Jan Hendrik Wessels.

You know, you wouldn't even care about the actual technicalities of scrum.

So we need that in our game.

You know, and, and I think that's, that is a troubling situation to be in.

Um, uh, I thought Jan Hendrik Wessels was [clears throat] an interesting experiment in terms of finding a backup loosehead and a hooker, and we're gonna try and turn this guy into utility front row forward who can add value across the park.

And looks like Bongi's coming to the end, so he may be a guy to step in.

Well, he's not even in the squad this week, Mac.

We dominated the scrum.

There's no reasons to change them.

Um, Jan Hendrik Wessels, I'm surprised, not necessarily because I'm invested in Jan Hendrik Wessels as a player, but he does bring a unique thing, and we've invested time in him.

So why is he not there now? [clicks tongue] Deon Fourie speaks for himself.

I think that's the way they're going to go.

And Hendrik Wessels will always be back up.

And Groblar, if Marks is injured and out, Groblar comes in and starts.

And Wessels will be the backup.

They're usually kind of low compared to other teams, but they have a much higher percentage of dominant tackles and tackle turnovers.

And inter- you know, with these dominant tacklers like Malcolm Marx, like Jan Hendrik Wessels, like Zach Porath, and Eben Etzebeth, Pieter-Steph du Toit, you have the ri- the return of the jackal.

So Paul de Villiers gets a start.

You know, Duane Vermeulen's been pulled back into camp maybe for, you know, other tests come, to come, but the, the clear signal of, you know, with Eskom on the bench as well, with Marx, you know, not a bad jackaler himself [laughs], the idea we're going to attack every third, fourth, fifth ruck.