Well done Boks!

Awesome performance by the Boks at Loftus yesterday.

It was a weak Aussie side and they were hit by injuries, but you play the team in front of you.

I thought the Bok loose trio were outstanding, with Francois Louw being brilliant.

I thought Bekker had his best game in a Bok jersey. I have always believed he shirked the hard stuff and hid on the wing. It was fantastic to see him tackling and hitting rucks. It he played like this every time, he'd be the complete number 5.

Habana is playing some of his best rugby again. His work rate was outstanding and he was justly rewarded.

Goosen made a good debut. It was stirring to see his emotion during the anthems and wonderful to see him taking front-foot ball and attacking the gain line. It would be churlish too criticise too much, but I would like to see him straighten his running lines a bit more and commit the opposition defenders.

Ruan Pienaar looked every bit the European player he was during the Heineken Cup. Thank goodness he cleared quickly and gave up his annoying habit of toeing the ball at ruck time.

Taute was good - a solid if unspectacular debut.

Kudos to Jean de Villiers. I thought he read the game brilliantly yesterday. His decisions were made fully aware of opposition players down injured and who was lined up in defence ahead of him.

Finally, if that was the same game plan, then clearly they didn't execute the plan in the earlier games of the rugby championship this season...