Changes for New Zealand

15.Lambie14.Pietersen13.Serfontein12.Pollard11.Habana 10.Steyn09.Du Preez08.Vermeulen07.Burger06.Louw05.Matfield04.Etzebeth03.Jannie02.Bissie01.Nyakane
Willie has not been playing well thus far, and given the need to win the territorial battle against New Zealand, I'd opt for Lambie at 15. He provides security under the high ball and can clear his lines effectively. This may be the most important change Meyer could make for this test.    Next, move Pollard to 12 and bring Steyn in at 10. This provides a tremendous kicking axis and is defensively sound. Pollard is a great 10, but he doesn't have the boot to win the aerial battle. He does run hard and has great distribution skills. Serfontein has been our best performing 13 of the past couple of years or so - aside from Jean's heroic effort in his last test. Serf is very tactically aware and can reliably martial the outside edge and form a sturdy front with Pollard and Steyn inside him.   I'm very confident in this backline to not only stifle New Zealand's kicking game, but allow us to play more effectively ball in hand on our own terms. As said before, it's defensively sound. Every player in that backline is competent under the highball. You can't kick at either wing, fullback or in behind the centres. It's very balanced and has a lot of great passers in key positions.    The breakdown is the next crucial battle and the lifeblood of Kiwi rugby. We dominated them in the Rugby Championship, but that was with Brussels. Louw is certainly no Brussow, but has been effective in the World Cup. I'd imagine we could achieve superiority here too in a fairly called game. Bismarck is not the breakdown menace that most claim him to be, but a tremendous counter rucker. I wouldn't normally select him ahead of Strauss but he has been effective. I liked what he did against Wales.    The loose trio is effective. Schalk has been tremendous as a link which brings more dynamism to the Boks static forward play. We need a big game from all three of them, and I think they can pull it off. 

 DF
Tiu hgave flopped the moment you mentioned Matfield.  If the Springboks played Matfield yesterday they would have lost by at least 10 to 12 points yesterday.   Matfield is not physical enough to compete in a game like yesterday and he flopped badly in both tests last year.
Alberts was a serious flop when we last play the AB's with him as a loosie in 2013,  Too  slow in pace to compete against the AB's and a serious flop when they take the ball wide.  
He has never ever competed in breakdown situations and has never in the past three  years and to bring him into the set-up is looking for inevitble disaster.  Jannie is not to be brought in into the set-up - he did squat when he came on yesterday and to brig him in next week would be a disaster.
I would not change anything in a winning team - especially not Matfield, Alberts and Jannie.   Based on performance uesterday - Nyakane could be the only change to b considered.           

Hahaha....when have you ever seen Matfield spilling balls like that in an attacking position. Limps great physicality leads to 10 metres and 3 turnovers.  

 Have you ever seen Matfield been any good in a physical game like yesterday.  Matfield yesterday would have destroyed our winning chances completely .   But you are way to dim to realize that. 
By the way Matfield did not make 5 meters in carrying balls in traffic this year in tests.  No comparison between the two players possible.    

 Nonsense...that's just an unsubstantiated claim. The Boks have won many,  more physical games than this with Matfield starting.
Lomp was impotent on the run, and once checked, he doesn't have Matfield's nous and hands. So as the game wore on he become less and less certain, trying to offload but in the end simply exposing the ball.

And it's time we gave up on this Stephanie charity. The kid should have been been nowhere near a game like that. He was an exposed nerve end and his tackling in space is atrocious. Enough with the Mr Nice guy, let him wear his blazer in the stands. We can't afford to take the risk of one of the starting locks getting hurt and this passenger having to see out the game. He has to get back to S15 rugby to build his credentials.

 Matfied carrying balls in traffic is a huge joke - he is incapable of performing in a physical game - don't you feel bad about his two line out fumbles/losses by Matfield in the RC games last year. 
Want to lose the game next week - get in Matfield into the set-up.  We cannot take the risk with useless Matfield next week - his standing around in the backline will destroy us up front, where we need to be competitive.
   

 With the All Blacks display of rugby (as it should be played) against France it would not matter who you selected or from where they came.
You are going to get taught a rugby lesson.
I fear that is what is going to happen when we go up against them next week-end.
Neither Jannie, Greybeard or Morne will make any difference and in fact they will weaken the Springbok side.
Vasbyt en maak 'n plan Mnr. Meyer.
Trust that Habana gets that record try as that is all the next game will mean.

New Zealand have been, at best, steady. They've done nothing overly spectacular. A person with a more discerning eye for detail would openly acknowledge that the French were more horrible than New Zealand were great. The rare moments where New Zealand were pressured by France they became immensely sloppy and unstructured. It should be a concern for you. I've already covered the contents of that test.
That said, they still have the weapons to target our lack of aerial game. It has been our undoing for many, many years. I hope its not the case now. 

AJ
I am not entirely convinced that the game of the AB's is the best thing to happen to them.   If they try and play a similar game like they did yesterday and there is pressure on their ball carriers they can become unstuck.   They will also have to bring more players in the tight 5 phase of play than they did yesterday.
As an example I want to refer to Nonu - yesterday he was excellent - in the RC test he and Smith was comprehensively outplayed by the De Allende - Kriel combination.   If the AB's gets less good balls to play with - they are not going to have the run of the field like they had yesterday.   
It will be a much closer game than many beleive and my guess is that the odds would 55;45 in favour of the AB's.  That is if Meyer starts with the same team as he did yesterday.  The changes suggested by DF and Mozart would be suicidal.     

Well, we will soon see