The sharpest thread in this episode centres on what the three-test series actually revealed about Springbok squad depth — and how deliberately Rassie Erasmus has been managing it. Harry argued that Rassie always intended to use Baltimore as a fourth test-proper, not an exhibition, partly because the Boks need to build World Cup readiness across the full squad: "Do we know that Kolisi, Pieter-Steph, Damian de Allende, Jesse Kriel, Michael Marks, Eben Etzebeth and Lood de Jager are all going to make it to Sydney a year from now? No, we don't." Arrie added that Rassie's post-match reaction after the third test told its own story — no jubilation, already focused on Baltimore and the score needing to read 3-1, not a shared 2-2. On the question of what New Zealand takes away, both agreed the All Blacks have genuine structural problems: Harry noted the Boks averaged only 5.3 scrum feeds per match to New Zealand's 11, yet it was the Boks' set-piece — culminating in the Malcolm Marx penalty-try and the driving-maul score — that defined the series. Arrie's pointed observation was that Super Rugby Pacific simply doesn't give New Zealand's forwards the set-piece pressure South Africa's European campaigns provide, and that gap showed across all three tests.