Jean de Villiers has used the Cape Town front-row controversy as a springboard to propose that World Rugby adopt a football-style approach — allowing teams to be announced just two hours before kick-off rather than the current 48-hour minimum. His argument is straightforward: if late changes are permitted under existing regulations, the rules themselves need revisiting rather than the coach being blamed for exploiting them. Schalk Burger complicates the picture by noting World Rugby likely mandates early announcements to generate storylines and build pre-match narrative — a commercial logic that cuts against De Villiers' proposal. Both agree Erasmus operated within the rules, with Burger framing it as the inevitable tension of a professional game still clinging to amateur values. The broader takeaway is that the debate says as much about rugby's structural ambiguity as it does about Erasmus's methods — with Kolisi's man-of-the-match Kolbe not even in the original 23 underlining just how fluid the selection reality already is.