Rugby picks

What is it with our infatuation to make players into something they are not?!

Jean DeVilliers is one of the best centres in the world and when he is playing alongside Jaque Fourie (Probably THE best in the world) you have a potentially awesome combination. And yet we would rather play De Villiers on the wing so that we can accommodate Wynand Olivier at centre in a partnership that has yet to deliver anything?

It's the same with Ruan Pienaar. The guy wants to play scrumhalf - and he is actually quite good at it - but we keep him as a flyhalf / fullback / wing and maybe sometimes scrumhalf cover. It's bizarre.

John Smit - a faboulus hooker and a great captain to literally lead from the front, we insist that we must play him as a prop?

I dunno - a little bizarre and it does us no real favours...