Any record can be broken.

Ireland have never ever made it past the QF of a WC

Brodie is a big force, but hopefully the Springboks will have both Lood and Eben fit the next time around. RG Jansen, Peter-Steph du Toit and Franco Mostert are all good contenders too, so depth at lock seems fine at the moment.

Ireland could still surprise all of us. They seem to fire when everybody thinks that they would not.

In Wellington the All Blacks would have been surprised, surely, but in Pretoria they were surprised again, and in Pretoria the Springboks dominated all aspects of play for most of the match.

Thats exactly what Mitch wanted : Control of all recruitment "or" a couple of marque signing to reenforce the gaps in the squad which cant be solved short term.

I’m with you. Nothing wrong with the tackle. The ref looked completely out of his depth. Maybe the citing officer thinks he needs to back up the ref as he got a bit of a kicking by both the French and English broadcasters.