we find it hard enough to get games.... and with us putting out almost B-teams its only going to make teams not want to play us even more...
The squad selected is hardly a "B" team just because Reid, Wood and Smith are missing. Only other pro players missing who would add something to the squad are Henderson, Keat (Scandinavia) and Lochhead (MLS) who wouldn't be released anyway because they have league games and it's not an international window.
This is not a bad starting eleven: Moss Tuiloma / Durante / Boxall / Roux Rojas / McGlinchey / James / Thomas Barbarouses / Smeltz
Centre-backs are the only second-choice players having to start and there's still Boyd, Brockie, Payne and Howieson on the bench.
South Africa's best current player, Steven Pienaar (Everton) won't even play for the national team anymore although he's only 32. Quit 18 months ago. They've had problems for years with their best players opting out.
However, South Africa have fewer top players who currently play for SA missing from their squad - their two biggest stars Dikgakoi (Crystal Palace regular) and Serero (Ajax) have made themselves availalble.
SA have more depth than us and have different players they call up on different occasions so they are fielding a pretty strong team. Not many of their overseas players apart from Serero and Dikgakoi play for high profile teams - the rest play in Belgium, for Doncaster or Bournemouth. However, their home-based players are often very good - such as current top goal-scorer Bernard Parker of Kaiser Chiefs (seven goals for Bafana Bafana last year).