Four wingers confirmation of talent in Bok camp: 'Scary to see what kind of depth we have'

About the only person who wasn't surprised that the Springbok coaches selected four wingers for the Rugby World Cup squad to defend the title won in Japan in 2019 was Cheslin Kolbe.

Jacques Nienaber and Co have a history of splurging what little playing resources they have on forwards to shore up a game which still relies heavily on having two tight fives in the match-day squad of 23 so the Bomb Squad can do Bomb Squad things.

With that in mind, the supporters with a penchant for compiling a fantasy team before you can say weekend selector took this to mean one of the four wings who had done duty in the build-up to the squad announcement would miss out, as four into three wouldn't go.

But the catch was who the unlucky blighter would be. Would it be Makazole Mapimpi or Kolbe, the two men who are the only South African players to score tries in a World Cup final? Would it be Kurt-Lee Arendse, the man who is the nearest thing to a like-for-like replacement for Kolbe? Or would it be Canan Moodie, the child prodigy and man-child rolled into one who has taken to Test rugby with a maturity that belies his 20 years?

Separating the four was always going to be tough: Arendse, Kolbe and Moodie had all been man of the match in three of the Boks' four matches thus far, while the universally loved Mapimpi - who received a sustained standing ovation when his name was read out as part of the World Cup squad - had flown under the radar without being what you'd call off the pace. 

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Ultimately, the selectors decided to go with all four.

"Honestly I wasn't surprised at all," he said from Cardiff on Wednesday in the build-up to the Boks' World Cup warm-up match against Wales. "I