Many in South Africa believe man-mountain Sheridan will be used to target a perceived weakness in the Springboks front row, where captain John Smit has been converted to tight-head from his former hooking role.
It was perched on the slope of a minor mountain, about a third of the way up, with thick slabs of rock stuck under the front side, a new rock every year, to keep the house from tumbling forward into the fields of wild raspberries.