Everyone is stuck on the fly half position. But let's be honest, it's one of the toughest positions to fill with quality players. I think everyone should stop using Morne Steyn as the scapegoat target when trying to use an example. Morne Steyn wouldn't have been the first choice pick for the Bulls if he were to stay in SA. Handre Pollard would have been picked ahead of him, maybe even Jacques-Louis Potgieter because of the style the Bulls wanted to play.
How about all the other positions??
You guys talk about flair, yet, the guy who showed the most flair in the French top 14 last season wasn't a Frenchman, it was Nick Abendanon!!
But let's revert back to my previous post about the SH filling their pools while our top players go abroad. Heinke Van Der Merwe is an example, since he left the Lions, he has been demolishing opposition scrums in France, and since his departure, the Lions has introduced 3 players in his position which have been also demolishing Super Rugby team's scrums the past 2 years. That is proof that one guy left, filled a french player's spot and back in SA his old spot got filled by 3 SA players. So basically 4 South African players got the benefit from filling one position in France.
And even if a SH player isn't a regular in his French team, he is still on the roster for that team, filling the gap of a potential french player. While back in SA, his position is filled by South Africans, who could possibly become world class players.