Next Saturday Pieter-Steph du Toit returns to the venue where he made his Bok debut four years ago.
His arrival on the international scene was done in surrounds conducive for budding talent to blossom.
Du Toit came on as a substitute for Eben Etzebeth in a pack that contained Duane Vermeulen, Bismarck du Plessis, Tendai Mtawarira and Frans Malherbe. With the help of a marauding Willem Alberts, they had pummelled Wales into submission by the time Du Toit came on.
How times have changed. Four years on, the strapping lock-cum-flank is looked up to in every sense. At just 25, now he is the one from who to draw inspiration and comfort.
There are great expectations, and while they don't necessarily sit easy with Du Toit, Springbok forwards coach Matt Proudfoot was happy to sing his praises.Proudfoot related a story from last weekend when departing assistant coach Johann van Graan said his goodbyes after the test in Paris. "When Johann left, he had an opportunity to greet the team.
"He said to Pieter-Steph that he has the ability to be one of the world's best rugby players, if not win the award of the world's best rugby player."
Inevitably, there will be questions about where Du Toit's talents are used best.
"I don't think a player like that is stuck in a position," said Proudfoot. "He's a tremendous athlete. He doesn't say very much but he has such a high standard of professionalism about himself that whether you pick him at four, five, seven, eight he'll do the job."
A blushing Du Toit said: "It is a huge compliment when you hear these things being said about you. You believe in yourself a little more, like when someone says to you 'get the ball in your hands and do what you do best'. That is what rugby is about."
Things didn't always go his way...