After Bakkies Botha's suspect citing for clearing a ruck in the dominant style that he has used his whole career and a knee injury to Andres Bekker, Boks coach Peter de Villiers has called up one of the hard men of SA rugby to pack down with Matfeild in the final test. This being Johann Muller, he has no lack of experience being a world cup winner and having captained the Boks briefly in 2007. The mains issue is that Muller is a natural no.5 Lock (the same as Matfeild) and this may cause some instability against a powerful Lions scrum (if they have any good replacements to the 3 injured lions props). Dannie Russouw would be the natural player to take Botha's place as he has spent time at no.4 at the Bulls during Super Rugby matches, but after Brian O'Driscoll unceremoniously took him out in the second test with no attempt at a tackle (for which he should have been cited) the two players were left to recover on the side lines.
Muller is a great abasador to SA rugby and will no doubt make South Africa proud this weekend facing up to the wounded Lions.
MM
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