Sharks flyhalf Siya Masuku has joined the list of quality flyhalves in South African rugby who'll have their eye on Springbok selection.
There are, all of a sudden, a number of flyhalves in SA who are sticking up their hands for a look-in at a higher level.It has taken just a handful of performances for Siya Masuku to get South African rugby fans excited about what he might offer the Springboks in future.
He is not new on the scene though. Masuku played a bit of rugby for the Lions, Leopards and Kings before finding a home in Bloemfontein with the Cheetahs. He already showed plenty of promise then.
All these players though will have to jump ahead of Handre Pollard and Manie Libbok, who seem to be the established number one and two of the Boks, with Damian Willemse as a third-choice flyhalf. Heck, even some of the World Cup-winning scrumhalves have in the past been talked about as possible flyhalf options in an emergency.
The good news is that South African rugby is currently blessed with a number of quality No 10s, some of them established, others still emerging, and it’ll be interesting to see who coachpicks in his squads later this season – either to play now and in the next few years, or whether simply with an eye on the future and beyond the 2027 World Cup.
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