NORMALLY any professional sportsman wants to make the team for a big game.
But the 15 selected to take the field for tomorrow night's match against the Southern Kings will be cursing their luck.
There's no way a seasoned old-timer like Geechs would risk a nailed-on test starter in a provincial mid-week game, no matter what he says about the first xv being picked afterwards.

THERE was one big winner from this weekend's Six Nations - and they weren't even playing.
The South Africans must have been laughing their heads off watching the paucity of rugby talent on show from the home nations.
It's becoming harder to win a test match with a scratch team in these days of the pro game - as the Lions so effectively proved in New Zealand.
But to approach the second hardest tour in world rugby with the players currently on offer is a duanting challenge.
And the question must be asked, can the much-loved institution that is the Lions survive another pounding?

CAN you have a good 17 point defeat?
Maybe you can when you take a young, inexperienced team to the world's most impenetrable rugby fortress and escape without getting battered beyond all recognition.
Especially when you consider the unfamiliar-looking England side were coming off the back of a strength-sapping Premiership season and the All Blacks had a nice little warm-up against Ireland last week.