Springbok team doctor Craig Roberts said Jannie du Plessis "looked revitalised against the World XV" in all aspects last Saturday, but it is no secret that the tighthead's place in the team is in serious jeopardy. True, he was busier than he had been of late and completed a few tackles early in Cape Town, but the main thing keeping him in the Bok starting XV depends heavily on how well he works with his brother, Bismarck, and Beast Mtawarira.Frans Malherbe, who had a stellar season with the Stormers and will start from the bench this weekend, is at the door with a sledgehammer.Said Malherbe: "There is very tight competition between the props and I reckon everyone must grab the chance they get."I didn't play last weekend, so I'm hoping to get a few good minutes this week to prove myself, and then the rest is entirely up to the coach."Most coaches would look at the Stormers scrum and think of it as a nuclear weapon but Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer is still holding on to hope that the Sharks incumbents will rule once more.But, as they say, one day you're cock of the walk, the next you're a feather duster.In a season in which the referees were flipping a coin at scrum time, it was unanimously agreed that the Steven Kitshoff, Scarra Ntubeni and Malherbe (or Koch) front trio had the wood on their opponents. You have to feel for Kitshoff: This was supposed to be his time, but injury has stalled the inevitable.Said Malherbe: "I get the question of how we built the Stormers scrum a lot and it is difficult to tell one particular thing we did right."Getting Vincent Koch in from the Pumas was no doubt good but what made us tick was that we've been playing together for a few years now: me, Ntubeni and Kitshoff. It came together at the right time."Flyhalf Handré Pollard will again have to prove that he can be to South African rugby what Jordan Spieth is to American golf and stop the Wallabies from outsmarting the Springboks at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane tomorrow.Should he win The Open this weekend 21-year-old Spieth is on track for a calendar grand slam in golf, having made a mockery of such conventions as the need for experience.Pollard was expected to do the same when he forced his way into the Bok starting lineup without much experience last season. But after a promising start in Super rugby, he has steadily lost form, leading to a patchy performance in last weekend's game against the World XV.Young midfielders Damian de Allende and Jesse Kriel, who together with Pollard form the 10-12-13 axis, arrive with a total of only 12 Test caps between them.Last year, Pollard was the lion cub surrounded by hyenas but, on the massive occasion at Ellis Park against the All Blacks, he came out on top.This is the very limit of Meyer's faith in youth.It obviously worries him that the Wallabies, with Matt Giteau's 92 caps, have closed the gap in Test experience and will start a XV with just 28 caps fewer than the Boks' combined 767.De Allende's stock will treble if he gets the better of Giteau this weekend, but that's no easy feat.Giteau has the grace of a Grand National steed and hands that catch as surely as magnets.How the teams will line upAustralia:(15-1) Israel Folau; Adam Ashley-Cooper, Tevita Kuridrani, Matt Giteau, Rob Horne; Quade Cooper, Will Genia; Scott Higginbotham, Michael Hooper, Scott Fardy; Will Skelton, Rob Simmons; Sekope Kepu, Stephen Moore (captain), James Slipper.Replacements: Tatafu Polota-Nau, Scott Sio, Greg Holmes, James Horwill, David Pocock, Nick Phipps, Matt Toomua, Drew Mitchell.South Africa:(15-1) Willie le Roux; JP Pietersen, Jesse Kriel, Damian de Allende, Bryan Habana; Handré Pollard, Ruan Pienaar; Schalk Burger, Marcell Coetzee, Francois Louw; Victor Matfield (captain), Eben Etzebeth; Jannie du Plessis, Bismarck du Plessis, Tendai Mtawarira.Replacements: Adriaan Strauss, Heinke van der Merwe, Frans Malherbe, Lood de Jager, Oupa Mohoje, Cobus Reinach, Pat Lambie, Lwazi Mvovo. AFP..