There will be a few Test spots on the line, but getting the Springbok campaign back on track is far more important.

This is the view of new Springbok captain Dewald Potgieter, who spoke to this website about leading the Boks in their second and final midweek match against Saracens at the Wembley Stadium in London on Tuesday.

Potgieter, who takes over the captaincy from the injured Chiliboy Ralepelle, says getting the first win for the Boks on their year-end tour is the team's main priority.

With the disappointing showing of the Test team, who went down 13-20 to the French in Toulouse last Friday, after the midweek Boks crashed 17-22 to the Leicester Tigers a week earlier, it is now paramount that the 37-man touring party get a win under the belt.

Potgieter said that while players will "always play in a way where you can put your hand up for selection to the Test team", there is a bigger picture to look at in Tuesday's game.

"The main focus of Tuesday's game is to get the entire tour back on track, to get that win," Potgieter told this website.

We certainly didn't start [the tour] as well as we wanted," he said about the defeats against the Tigers and France.

"And from the viewpoint of the coach, Peter de Villiers, the most important is to get a win under the belt and produce a good performance," Potgieter said, adding: "It [winning] certainly will be more important than individuals wanting to play themselves into a Test spot.

"It is also very important that the team does well if you want the coach to look at you in your individual capacity.

"When the team does well it is much easier for individuals to shine. The main goal is to focus on Tuesday and not on Saturday's game."

Potgieter, who has captained the Emerging Springboks to an amazing 13-all draw against the British & Irish Lions earlier this year, says he will again "lead from the front".

The 22-year-old loose forward, who also represented his country at age-group level, said he did not expect the Bok captaincy to come so soon - despite having skippered the Emerging Boks in June.

"Just to play for the Emerging Boks was a great experience," he said.

"All I wanted to do was give myself an opportunity to make the [year-end] touring party. I certainly wasn't thinking about playing any leadership role [on tour].

"However, it is great to have this opportunity - to have an even bigger impact on the game and be the captain. I'm certainly looking forward to it."

He said he prefers to lead is from the front.

"Captaincy seems to trigger this subconscious drive in me to play a more 'in your face' type of game," he told this website.

"It is also the way you play as a flank, and the it depends on the opposition.

"When I have the captaincy I get into the thick of things even more."