Ben Youngs has openly encouraged Henry Pollock to wind up Springbok supporters if he gets going at Ellis Park next Saturday — ideally, per Youngs, with a first-half hat-trick and a celebratory two-fingered salute to the crowd. Pollock has already been stoking the fire on Instagram with a "See you soon" post accompanied by a South African flag and blood emojis, drawing predictable responses from Bok fans including a pointed reminder about Jasper Wiese's ribcage-to-flanker relationship. The piece also features Steven Kitshoff and Trevor Nyakane, who both appeared on the same podcast — Kitshoff admitting it would be chaos if Pollock plays a blinder, while Nyakane took the more measured line of simply telling him to be himself. Erasmus, for his part, has already gone on record calling Pollock's on-field output "awesome" while distancing himself from the off-field theatrics. The only dampener on the spectacle, as Youngs drily noted, would be Borthwick leaving him out altogether.