Wilco Louw

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Number three for us, I say big W, Viljoen scrummaging horsepower.

Yeah, and, uh, I mean, for me, that, that Auto Trader front row is just, they're built like cars, to be honest, the three of them.

100%.

Yeah.

If you look at how the substitutions happened, Wilco Louw played a bit deeper.

Yeah.

Um, obviously Ox did his thing.

Um-

Yeah

... you know, Wilco Louw gets sort of obstructed at the b- he runs that little shoulder ball behind Cobus Reinach.

He's actually just got to front and get the inside cleaner there.

Quite.

When you see Thomas du Toit strutting around and then he's replaced by Wilco Louw, you're like, "Yeah, those guys are gonna be good at pushing."

Yeah, yeah.

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Mm.

I thought that Oxenché was brought off maybe five minutes early, and I thought Wilco Louw was left on too long.

So that would have evened things out a little bit.

Like was Pothan because we had those extra options at, at, at prop where they start shifting guys around, w- was that the plan? So maybe it wasn't specifically on Pothan, it was maybe the front row plan.

the guy I was thrilled with, even though we can claim nothing of

the last few years, was Wilco.

I mean, I think that was

as mean and destructive a performance.

I think he's probably culpable in that scrum.

I know Steenkamp's penalised because he goes in a bit and knocks Steenkamp across.

both being technical, but wasn't he, so I mean, all that's for the problems of props to deal with Mr. Thomas, the privatized tank and Wilco is going to be, going to be tricky for them.

So I was thrilled with Wilco from our selfishness.

Um, and then as the ball got fed, they, they just bulldozed through the middle.

So from a From a scrumming point of view and, and what Dan Human's message always would be on to the guys is that it's, it's that first punch, is how hard can you actually get across the line, and how much pressure can you build legally before the ball gets fed? And, uh, for me, it felt like that's where a guy like, like Wilco Louw thrives, is he, he comes off the mark exceptionally quick, and then he puts a, a opposition loosehead prop under so much pressure before the ball's even fed.

And, and that's normally where the dominance lies.

It's...

He's also played the last couple of games against the All Blacks as well at 10.

Uh, and then the o- then the other one was interesting to me, which tells me also where the Boks are going, is, is Wilco Louw, who's not seen as the most mobile prop, but he's probably the strongest prop in, I would say, I would even argue in world rugby at the moment.

Uh, yeah, he's 145 kg frame.

Uh, they, looks to me they're gonna g- target the, the All Blacks very much in the scrums by selecting him.

Thomas du Toit didn't make the squad, and, uh, Zach Porter and the other tighthead is on the bench.

They're a lot more mobile tightheads.

They're not the, the, the pure raw scrummagers like, uh, like Wilco Louw is.

Yeah, it's, uh, uh, on Siya Kolisi, um, how much of a loss is Siya? I mean, I know he's a leader, but we're talking about 36-year-old Siya Kolisi now, not the Siya Kolisi from four years ago.