"They know what they want from their players - or they did when I played against them - and they pick men to do a specific job. They bank on experience, no matter how far back they have to go to get it, and they have been proved right. They work on the principle that once a player has established himself as a Springbok or All Black of genuine test class, then he will have that ability long after most people are prepared to write him off. And they are right. There is no substitute for experience.