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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_stormer2010" data-source="post: 419360" data-attributes="member: 39190"><p>Well, obviously there is Cooper, who had a better Super rugby season than Carter in 2011 but in saying taht I'd still pick Carter at test level at this stage. Carter is still young enough to be around for a while and who knows we might see some of his best rugby yet. Cooper has a long career ahead of him but like was pointed out earlier, it seems like he is undecided about what he wants to do or maybe that is just his agent's way of upping the money on offer.</p><p></p><p>After then there are Trin-Duc, Steyn, Flood, Hook, Sexton all who could still become great but with a few things to work on. Wilkinson also has something to offer though I wonder whether it would be worth it to have him around the test side much longer in terms of returns on your investment in game-time.</p><p></p><p>For SA, I hope Lambie and Sias Ebersohn stay around and get game-time at 10 in Super rugby. Steyn has looked average without FdP on his inside and these youngsters are much more rounded and I would love to see what they would have been capable of with Du Preez on their inside. Sadly, Du Preez is moving on after the RWC 2011 and we will probably see Steyn and Butch James at 10 for SA. Lambie will be in the squad but I predict he'll be vying for the 15/22 jersey with Frans Steyn. Anyways, it'd be good for Lambie to at least travel with the squad as any experience at test level is better than none. I just hope the Sharks play him at 10. With Michalak there we saw him move to 15 where he did well but SA needs him at 10 and I fear he will become the next Brent Russell/Ruan Pienaar/Frans Steyn; talented SA players moved around at the Sharks and getting disillusioned and not getting settled in any particular position. Sias Ebersohn is IMO the other candidate for the Springbok future 10 jersey (ahead of Lions 10 Elton Jantjes and SA u20 Johan Goosen); he has vision, good distribution, some pace and a very trained boot. He is small and needs a bit of work on his defense but he could very easily be BIG competition for Lambie for SA's flyhalf in the near future. Just hope he remains at the Free State with his brother and continues to get the game-time and continues to develop as he has. Being at the Free State, though means he might get targeted and end up playing on the bench elsewhere or go to Europe like just about every Free State 10 that I can remember. Players like Meyer Bosman and JLP most recently who showed a lot of promise but moved before they had developed enough to really keep going up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_stormer2010, post: 419360, member: 39190"] Well, obviously there is Cooper, who had a better Super rugby season than Carter in 2011 but in saying taht I'd still pick Carter at test level at this stage. Carter is still young enough to be around for a while and who knows we might see some of his best rugby yet. Cooper has a long career ahead of him but like was pointed out earlier, it seems like he is undecided about what he wants to do or maybe that is just his agent's way of upping the money on offer. After then there are Trin-Duc, Steyn, Flood, Hook, Sexton all who could still become great but with a few things to work on. Wilkinson also has something to offer though I wonder whether it would be worth it to have him around the test side much longer in terms of returns on your investment in game-time. For SA, I hope Lambie and Sias Ebersohn stay around and get game-time at 10 in Super rugby. Steyn has looked average without FdP on his inside and these youngsters are much more rounded and I would love to see what they would have been capable of with Du Preez on their inside. Sadly, Du Preez is moving on after the RWC 2011 and we will probably see Steyn and Butch James at 10 for SA. Lambie will be in the squad but I predict he'll be vying for the 15/22 jersey with Frans Steyn. Anyways, it'd be good for Lambie to at least travel with the squad as any experience at test level is better than none. I just hope the Sharks play him at 10. With Michalak there we saw him move to 15 where he did well but SA needs him at 10 and I fear he will become the next Brent Russell/Ruan Pienaar/Frans Steyn; talented SA players moved around at the Sharks and getting disillusioned and not getting settled in any particular position. Sias Ebersohn is IMO the other candidate for the Springbok future 10 jersey (ahead of Lions 10 Elton Jantjes and SA u20 Johan Goosen); he has vision, good distribution, some pace and a very trained boot. He is small and needs a bit of work on his defense but he could very easily be BIG competition for Lambie for SA's flyhalf in the near future. Just hope he remains at the Free State with his brother and continues to get the game-time and continues to develop as he has. Being at the Free State, though means he might get targeted and end up playing on the bench elsewhere or go to Europe like just about every Free State 10 that I can remember. Players like Meyer Bosman and JLP most recently who showed a lot of promise but moved before they had developed enough to really keep going up. [/QUOTE]
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