You do not need inspiration or motivation for a World Cup final.
Those Springboks who looked jaded against England will bounce back and deliver. The likes of Siya Kolisi, Eben Etzebeth, Franco Mostert and Francois Malherbe were invisible against England, but I do not think they will ever be that quiet again.
Even so, I think New Zealand are favourites.
Heading into the tournament, we did not really know where they were and I think we wrote them off after the record thumping handed out by South Africa at Twickenham.
But you write the All Blacks off at your peril. They showed us who they are in beating Ireland and were then clinical in putting Argentina away in their semi.
If the weather on Saturday is wet, as is forecast, the final will be about territory, kicking and chasing deep. People often underestimate how much the All Blacks kick.
But I do not think they always like to play the confrontational game, so we need to carry hard and make it a war, one that is physically attritional.
In 1995, South Africa battled through their pool, won a semi-final in the rain and went into a final against New Zealand as underdogs. The parallels are there.
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