Saturday, December 19, 2009
Butch Needs to Fire - Chester
Former Springbok wing, Chester Williams, says Butch James needs to be on song if the Boks are to have any chance of dominating Saturday's second test against the All Blacks in Dunedin.
James didn't dominate the match as he usually does and many of his kicks were badly directed. Also his backline didn't get much front-foot ball. Williams is confident however that James' game will be much-improved this weekend and that his performance in the first test was just a once-off occurrence.
Williams also says Jean de Villiers and Adi Jacobs hold the key to a Bok victory on Saturday. The two of them didn't get much of a chance on a! ttack but they did combine well in the lead-up to Bryan Habana's try. Jacobs pulled in two defenders and slipped his pass to de Villiers who ran into space and put Habana away for a 50 metre sprint.
Williams believes more front-foot ball for the midfield could lead to a few more tries from the likes of Habana and Conrad Jantjes.
Meanwhile, it looks like coach Peter de Villiers will make at least two changes to his starting fifteen for the match. JP Pietersen could replace Odwa Ndungane on the right wing while Brian Mujati or Tendai "Beast" Mtawarira could bolster their struggling scrum.