The sharpest Springbok-relevant moment in this Six Nations debrief comes when the panel turns to the looming England vs South Africa test in Johannesburg. Jean de Villiers argued that England, playing the way they did against France — direct on the gain line, kicking options alive, exploiting the backfield — have the tools to put the Boks under genuine pressure. He was specific about the vulnerability: South Africa's aggressive line speed defence, while a strength, can expose the backfield when teams kick intelligently behind the rushing defenders, and he felt England demonstrated exactly that kind of execution. His co-hosts pushed back on the severity of the threat, with the consensus landing that the Boks should win comfortably at home — but that England's battle-hardened state after a full Six Nations campaign, versus South Africa's slower start with Japan-based players still finding their feet, makes it far from a foregone conclusion.