The Springboks will play their final match on home soil on Saturday before jetting off to Japan for next month’s World Cup.
On the menu for the Rugby Championship champions is a chance to earn back-to-back wins against Argentina and also an opportunity for fringe players to book their place on the plane to the Land of the Rising Sun.
While he has experimented with his squad, coach Rassie Erasmus still expects them to win the match and for the players to show Springbok fans what they are capable of.
WANTS MORE: Rassie. Photo: Chris Ricco/BackpagePix.
The coach explains: “This is a massive Test for us against a fired-up Argentina team that will looking to end their Test campaign on a high.
“We’ve gained momentum over the Rugby Championship, the last thing we want to do is lose it.”
Led by the oldest Springbok captain in history, Schalk Brits, Erasmus also welcomed back regular skipper Siya Kolisi when he named his side on Wednesday.
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While Kolisi will be out to prove his fitness, a number of players such as Andre Esterhuizen, Dillyn Leyds, Rynhardt Elstadt and Thomas du Toit among others will go flat-out to impress or risk saying sayonara to their chances of making the final 31-man squad for the Japan mission.