Gavin Rich makes a pointed argument that staging the RGR trophy decider in Baltimore was a strategic and cultural mistake — the real series climax was FNB Stadium in front of 86,000 fans, and moving the trophy lift offshore for economic reasons mirrors exactly the kind of money-over-game logic that Doc Danie Craven warned about when rugby went professional. Rich draws a direct parallel with the (so far rejected) idea of hosting an Ashes Test in India, arguing the Baltimore game should have been a standalone exhibition rather than the series finale. On the rugby itself, he's unambiguous: the Boks have been the clearly superior team across games two and three, physically dominant and increasingly clinical in the final quarter, and a 3-0 series lead would not have been a false reflection of the gap between the sides. The opening-game loss in Joburg he puts squarely down to cohesion issues after a long lay-off, not All Black superiority. Rich also pivots to a genuinely interesting domestic angle — Griquas winning back-to-back Currie Cup titles would make their exclusion from the Champions Cup in favour of the Cheetahs increasingly hard to justify, and he floats the idea of a combined central South Africa franchise as a more competitive EPCR entry.