For a coach in any sport, once you make changes to a team and they win you are genius and if the team losses, you are a villain and more pressure on you.
Blue Bulls coach Pote Human made several changes for their game against the Highlanders. After weeks with no success, Human made the tough calls, dropping senior players and bringing in young players. The gamble did pay off as the players brought in were instrumental in the Blue Bulls win over the Highlanders.
The Free Stater handed debuts to Muller Uys and Ian Groenewald while giving starting opportunities for Ruan Nortjie and flyhalf Mannie Libbok who replaced Morne Steyn. Human was pleased his team selection paid dividends, and with the performances of the youngsters.
"The guys that were left out also produced, they tried their best. The youngsters brought new energy, Mannie at flyhlaf was excellent; the locks did very well, a guy like Ruan Nortjie, for the first time catching lineouts at this level, was phenomenal; he put pressure on their lineouts. The scrums speaks for its self, it was successful, even the maul, everybody bought into what we want to do," said Pots Human.
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