It's still debatable which Aussie was the luckiest at the weekend: Mick Fanning or Tevita Kuridrani. Fanning survived some tense moments in the sea being examined by a shark. Kuridrani survived some tense moments in Brisbane being studied by a television match official.Fanning had been sent off, in a manner of speaking, for punching a shark at Jeffreys Bay. Punching a Shark would not have been an option for Kuridrani; he would have copped a five-match ban for doing what the surfer had done if he had been playing for the Brumbies in Durban.Fanning, the winner of three world surfing titles and a finalist in the J-Bay Open on Sunday, believes that the punch saved him from becoming a shark's breakfast.The Aussie surfer was quickly pulled from the water. Naturally he was "stoked".If you missed it, Fanning's moments were the most gripping bit of television at the weekend - more dramatic than Kuridrani's try against the Boks on Saturday and a lot more convincing than Steven Spielberg's monster "Bruce" from 40 years ago.Even though we already knew the outcome, the TV footage of Fanning being circled by a sinister grey fin was still breathtaking. Not since Jaws has a fish held us so enthralled.If the shark passed up the chance of a Sunday snack in J-Bay, the Boks made a dog's breakfast of their chances in Brisbane where TMO Ben Skeen made a meal of Kuridrani's split-second kiss of the tryline.At the time - and even after interminable replays - it appeared that the South Africans had been convicted, yet again, on the flimsiest evidence by an Antipodean ref.Sadly, the following day more video evidence and a still photograph were presented by the prosecution: Guity as charged, m'lud. Kuridrani had got the ball down on the line, albeit briefly, and Schalk Burger had been too late to put a hand underneath and prevent the match-winning try.While the J-Bay shark got clean away, the Boks had been caught in the act.Off camera in Brisbane was the team's accomplice, coach Heyneke Meyer, who had got his maths all wrong.While his Wallaby counterpart, Michael Cheika, was making brilliant substitutions with David Pocock, Matt Toomua and Scott Sio coming on, our Heyneke was subtracting 1, 2 and 3 from 15 and adding 16, 17 and 18, coming up with 20 which was four points short.Those familiar with the dark arts of the front row will tell you that it takes a while to get the rhythm, technique and power of a front row going in a match. All it takes to disrupt that are some silly substitutions.And poor Jannie du Plessis. The Bok tighthead, like a big lorry, is slow to start. Then, just as he was going nicely, making eight (yes, eight!) tackles in 43 minutes, he was called off. That was bad enough, but then he still had to suffer abuse from Adolf Hitler (check out the YouTube from the Fuhrer's bunker).At least the Boks will be back on firmer ground this Saturday. Their opponents have won only four times in 14 games at Ellis Park, losing 10 and scoring just 279 points to the Springboks' 333.The home team will have the roar of a full house behind them, Johannes-burg's altitude will strangle their opponents' lungs and chill their bones.The only trouble is that those opponents are the All Blacks...