03 Mar
Steel yourselves, it increasingly seems, for the shattering blow we quietly feared for months was coming anyway: a novel reversal of the battlegrounds for the keynote series between the World Cup-holding Springboks and the British and Irish Lions.
Sacrilege? Well, absolutely, in terms of the spectacular bucking of historic trends around the hallowed venture.
Resident rugby writer Rob Houwing gives you his take on what's happening between the poles.
