Dan Cole's breakdown of the Springbok scrum on his podcast is worth reading for any Bok fan who wants to hear it articulated from the other side of the scrum. His core argument: it's not just the mass — though 130kg tightheads and 120kg hookers like Marx are genuinely freakish finds — it's that the Boks have built a psychological dominance so complete that referees now give them the benefit of 50/50 calls as a matter of course. They've "earned the right" to that extra second, in Cole's words. The other half of the argument is arguably more interesting: most teams can hold the Boks for 50-60 minutes with their best front row, but the Bok bench matches or exceeds the starters, so the punishment only gets worse as the game wears on. Cole frames it as a "strength on strength" doubling-down that no pack in world rugby can currently answer over a full 80 minutes.