Since late Friday the rugby imbongis have been urging us to support the Springboks. By the time of the team's next match, against Japan on September 18, that will happen naturally. Until then let's examine the 31 who will represent South Africa at the World Cup - and the man who will coach them.Since he took the job four years ago, Heyneke Meyer's selections have been revealing about how the coach regards the country's rugby talent.First, he intends to blood a player at a World Cup, something that has been done by the Boks at only two out of five tournaments, and in the case of 1995 the circumstances were unusual. It's not that Rudy Paige doesn't deserve selection, it's just odd that a coach as conservative in his selections as Meyer has opted for an uncapped player in a critical position ahead of someone he's chosen for 10 successive Tests. There's a rat somewhere in the tog-bag.In his four years as the Bok coach, Meyer has given debuts to 38 players, 31 of them white and seven black. With that imbalance in mind, it becomes even harder to understand his selection of Paige (as much - it needs to be repeated - as the Bulls scrumhalf deserves to be there ahead of the limited Cobus Reinach).There's a suspicion that a lot of horse-trading went on in the selection process. It also means that Paige might not have been the coach's choice. Neither might Siya Kolisi nor Trevor Nyakane.In his 11 Tests since Meyer gave him a first cap against Scotland in 2013, Kolisi has never started. Nyakane has started only twice, against Italy and Argentina, in 16 Tests. Compare Kolisi to a favourite Meyer flanker, Marcell Coetzee, who in 28 Tests for Meyer has needed to warm the bench only nine times. Or Heinrich Brüssow, who has started in all three Tests for which he was selected this year.Yet Kolisi gets the nod ahead of both. Yes, we know Coetzee is said to be injured, but so are half-a-dozen or so other Boks who made it into the team. It was clear that Meyer needed to choose between the three flankers and he picked the one he has least favoured.What this suggests is that Meyer has failed to embrace and nurture black rugby talent. He has been comfortable with only four black players in his four years: Tendai Mtawarira, Bryan Habana, Zane Kirchner and JP Pietersen.He has given Habana and Mtawarira each 36 caps and The Beast has been the only one used as a reserve, and then just four times. Kirchner, in 14 Tests for Meyer, has had 13 starts, while Pietersen was on the bench only three times in 17 Tests. They have been Meyer's regular quota.Meyer has - in 41 Tests as Bok coach - selected more than five black players in a match squad only seven times and never more than six. It's not as if there is no black talent out there and it's not as if the Super 15 coaches are not playing them (an easy excuse in the past).The coach should be made to explain his selection criteria in his performance review once the Boks return from the World Cup - with Bill or without...