PdV made a comment after the game saying ‘we only lost on the scoreboard’- well that’s where the game is determined and paying fans enjoyment or disappointment is determined. For a fan paying big money to attend a test match and then hearing comments like that made by the coach is not good as that comment suggests the team was using it more as a practice game then a Tri Nations test.

It seems all the coaching staff having been looking for in this year’s Tri Nations was positives from game play and not the end result. 

Well Saturday was the first time we saw most of the real “A“ team boks in action. We witness more structured play going forward and organised defence compared to the side that performed in the away leg. Who we thank for this ? I say the Rustenburg camp rather than Pdv.

The Boks could and should have won the game when the conditions were more conducive to the game they tried to play, and the use of our subs could have been better.

What we learned on Saturday was that Smit cannot play prop again, Brussow is our thrump and that man Spies can play a bit of rugby (but he won't my RWC starting 15).

But after so called positives PdV talks about the team gained on Saturday and only rustiness needs to be removed, he now expects to make changes again (barring injury enforced changes) ahead of the final game before the WC. How will that help with our rustiness??? Only PdV can tell us.

This weekend the up against an All Blacks “B“ (capable of beating any world side also). We wait to see how serious PdV is in trying to win the game or is using it as another training exercise.

Divvy needs to remember that winning becomes a habit and so does losing.