It was a damaging end-of-year-tour for the South Africa A team as they suffered disappointing defeats against understrength club teams Munster and Bristol Bears in Ireland and England over the past two weeks.
It was an experienced squad littered with exciting up and coming youngsters that were expected to do the business in their two games in the UK, but were instead embarrassed by their understrength hosts.For the more experienced players, who were just off the Springboks squad, it was a damaging experience, as they did nothing to boost their chances of getting into the Bok mix, however, coach Mzwandile Stick believes the youngsters will be okay.
“Sometimes, you also have to learn the hard way. The youngsters got an opportunity on this tour, went through pressure in the past two games. It was packed and loud in the stadiums. That’s the closest thing you can experience in a Test match game.“A lot of them have a lot to learn. I don’t think this is going to damage their future. Yes, we are disappointed, but I don’t doubt that the youngsters in this team have the potential to make it far in the future.
“We haven’t played these SA A games in a while. Now we know better. For me as a coach, I would have loved to have a week or two of a camp with the guys, where we can just implement all the stuff we want to execute in our plan,” admitted Stick.
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