Well I think it's too early too make the call that Jean-Luc is more talented. Dan was injured for large parts of last year and this season. His brother Jean-Luc just got more playing time and was picked for the EOTY tour while his brother was still injured. They are on record saying that if the one sees the other perform it gives them more motivation. Physically they are almost identical. So I see no reason why Dan can't also be called up if he performs well in the final part of Super rugby. The only thing that's going to stop Dan du Preez from becoming a Springbok is injury.
You might be right, but physically identical isn't everything. In the end, you don't know if one maybe worked harder, or might just be more talented in general.
Dan is definitely a talent and a good prospect, but Jean-luc is a freak, it's rare for any player to have such a huge impact at 21 in Super Rugby, and he's arguably been the best blind-side flank in the competition. I think I did a stats comparison against the bigs boys like Cane and Todd and he came out very favourably (So did Kolisi for the record).
I've heard Jean-luc has always been the slightly better brother, he did get called up to the Junior Bokke a year earlier, and then when they both got called up Jean-luc was a starter while Dan played off the bench.
Also empirically Jean-luc seems better, a more explosive ball-carrier with the ability to off-load while Dan seems slightly more pedestrian.
Nothing would please me more if we had two monsters coming through, however - they are both still 21 in any case so there is lots of room for development.
I think their older brother Rob has every chance of being a Springbok one day as well so we could see three of them in the Bokke at some point.
The sa a squad is pretty much the same as the England squad touring Argentina now. Made up of a bunch of fringe players with lots of potential and a few hardened Springboks such as Mvovo and Pollard.
As for the u20 s The standouts for me was
1. Juarno Augustus but he needs to play more Super rugby before being considered . Otherwise I think this guy is freakishly made for rugby.
2. Curwin Bosch should become a Springbok within 2 years in a conservative estimation.
3. That one wing for the baby boks was excellent but can't remember his name.
The wing is probably Gianni Lombard as he's the one who stood out for me. I also thought Damian Willemse was alright, but I'm not sure how much game time he's going to get in the near future, the forward pack with the exception of Augustus was pretty average.
Not the best u20 side we've ever had, but there looked to be some talent in the back-line, I thought the scum-half Embrose Papier was pretty good too, good enough to find a union anyway.
