Rotation for Scotland

Rassie has made wholesale changes from the team that klapped England last week. He is very cleverly using the Nations Championship as a way to expand his squad and test different combinations.

Damian Willemse (who had a stellar game at fullback) is shifted to inside centre. Had he not suffered a concussion against England, Andre Esterhuizen would probably have started at inside centre in this match. Bulls duo Handre Pollard and Embrose Papier will run the game at half back. It is rumoured that Canan Moodie is now also out injured and Ethan Hooker may make an early return to the team at 11.

PSDT shifts back to 7 and Paul de Villiers (the first true open side to play for the Boks in a long time) and Ruan Nortje are the only other forwards retained for this match.

Scotland has a very good backline and excellent loose trio. The Boks will have to contain Finn Russell and Ben White and make sure they cannot get those backs going.

15 Aphelele Fassi, 14 Edwill van der Merwe, 13 Jesse Kriel, 12 Damian Willemse, 11 Canan Moodie, 10 Handré Pollard, 9 Embrose Papier, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Pieter-Steph du Toit (c), 6 Paul de Villiers, 5 Ruan Nortjé, 4 Cobus Wiese, 3 Wilco Louw, 2 Johan Grobbelaar, 1 Boan Venter.
Bench: 16 Jan-Hendrik Wessels, 17 Ntuthuko Mchunu, 18 Zach Porthen, 19 Ben-Jason Dixon, 20 Vincent Tshituka, 21 Elrigh Louw, 22 Grant Williams, 23 Quan Horn.

15 Kyle Rowe, 14 Kyle Steyn, 13 Rory Hutchinson, 12 Sione Tuipulotu (c), 11 Jamie Dobie, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Ben White, 8 Jack Dempsey, 7 Rory Darge, 6 Matt Fagerson, 5 Scott Cummings, 4 Gregor Brown, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 Ewan Ashman, 1 Pierre Schoeman.
Bench: 16 Gregor Hiddleston, 17 Rory Sutherland, 18 Will Hurd, 19 Alex Samuel, 20 Josh Bayliss, 21 Magnus Bradbury, 22 Tom Jordan, 23 Stafford McDowall.