The bloggers are entitled to express opinions about ALL the Bok coaches purported selections – not just PdVs.
BUT when you take the top job you get shot at, rememeber Jake White he got kicked every week by bloggers and politicians !
And one PdV had no problem putting the boot in to the incumbent Bok coach during a Bok tour of UK !!!

Suck it up man, we are all fervent supporters and entitled to express opinions. This team belongs to SA not one man. Many coachs have found this out the hard way.

People are touting Brussow as the saviour of Bok rugby all of sudden.He is a ROOKIE in the Test arena,with only 1 test to his name and even though he had a great S14 he still has the propensity to give away a plethora of penalties which will even be worse with the employment of the global ELV’s.

Frans Steyn has long been touted as a 15 by all and sundry on this blog,many a time being suggested as a great there one day and should be played there.PDiV finally chooses him there-the desk coaches call him an idiot for doing so.And have suggested we filed a rookie 15 (Kirchner) and a rookie 10 (Morne Steyn) in this series..

PDiv cant win in most of the circles in SA rugby and the public anyway so why not pick what he wants and be the owner of his destiny.Thats all any MAN wants.

Plenty of hypocrites on here..

Its ridicilous

As we do not know what either team will be it is hard to make a prediction so I will put it down to 2 results based on one key decision: Who plays pivot for boks?

Result one: Monrne Steyn plays, kicks every penalty that lions give away, which should be around every time we form a ruck in there half, so a garenteed 12 – 20 points. This forces the lions to play according to the rules which makes the game more open and allowes the boks to run rampant, of course BOD and co will test us and we will give some penalties to so I would sugest a score of about 35 – 20 for the BOKS.

Result two: Ruan Pinaar plays and misses 40%-50% of his penalty kicks, but still we win because we have a very experienced side but will have to work harder to put the lions under pressure. 27 – 20

That was your argument. You are going on ifs and buts, not me.

Fact is. SA is deserving RWC winners. We lost the Tri Nations because we wasn`t good enough.

B&I’s 5 games on the trot won. We have been sitting on our arses. It is going to be a very close game.

Thanks for this. of course I agree there is a lot of turkey talk from the Lions and the Brit media, trying to egg on the Springboks into losing cool. But I still think fans and management should be taking this series very seriously indeed, especially the crucial first Test where the lions have the continuity and altitude advantages. We have witnessed some very good Lions players out there and they are canny fellows.

PdV has improved his ideas of the game at this level. If we can play the combination of basics and then “what’s in front of you” when and if opportunity is there, we will surely beat them. That seemed to be the pattern of PdV after he had digested the tri-Nations loss. Let’s hope he keeps it.

We also could have klapped the All Blacks and France. Both those teams were not good enough to even get to the point to face us.

If they were so deserving, why didn`t they make the grade against teams that we beat?

Your logic is very flawed.