The Springbok Women started their second camp for the year on Friday as they slowly but surely get in shape for the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand in October, and Human again assisted the squad in what proved to be a demanding session at Villagers Rugby Club in Claremont.

The assistance received from Human and Davids was much appreciated as well as necessary, said Myners: “We looked at where we were from a performance perspective after our tour to Europe in November last year and Daan and Deon then provided us with some ideas and suggestions to improve and more importantly, ran a number of sessions during scrum and line-out camps in recent weeks.

“That gave the forwards a huge boost and although we have not played a match, the improvement was huge.

“One of the issues around our scrums on the tour was our body position and how we responded when under pressure. With Daan's help, the players were given options on how to reverse the pressure and how to recover when placed under pressure.

"One of the remedies was to have better scrum conditioning as this would allow us to hold our position or shape for longer," Myners added.

Myners explained that the lack of scrum exposure was the main difference between the national men and women's teams.

"Scrumming is one of those areas where you can only improve the more you do it and men are scrumming from an early age, so they can progress and get better over time. Women start later so they are improving as they go along," he said, adding that Human, a former Springbok prop, had showed them a slight variance in approach.

"It will take time, but what we decided to do with Daan's help, was to get into a repetition and routine mode.

"The more they scrum, the better they will become. Where we are improving is holding our shape in the scrum. In today's session again, we stuck to those principles.”

The suggestions Davids made in lineout sessions are also bearing fruit.

"Our lineouts on tour were not bad, but we felt we were slow off our feet and did not get into the air as well as we could,” said Myners.

“Deon helped a lot with positional skills. He also pointed to ways on how to stop a maul and be more effective when we have the ball."

Myners said both Bok coaches complimented the squad on a number of basics that were in place.

"Both indicated that we are doing a lot of good things, but as you know, players often respond more positively to a new voice, and this was no different. The good interaction between the national coaches is improving the team and that is a very good position to be in," added Myners.