Boks: Is lock-picker Willie shifting toward late-game duties?

In his 35th year, Willie le Roux may be morphing into a modern alternative to Frans Steyn as seasoned SA 'supersub', says Rob Houwing.

It is increasingly difficult - no bad thing - to pinpoint exactly which personnel Jacques Nienaber and his Springbok aides identify as first choices from one berth to another.

Could it be that not even the premier advent of a World Cup - which the Boks kick off for own purposes against Scotland in Marseille on Sunday - is going to significantly change that trend?Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.

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