Steve Hansen has gone on record acknowledging that the All Blacks simply weren't good enough to beat the Springboks across the Rugby's Greatest Rivalry series, identifying four specific areas where South Africa dominated: pre-breakdown work (particularly getting bodies over the ball — he singles out Marx by name), scrumming on South Africa's own ball, dealing with the high ball, and stopping the maul. His diagnosis is that conceding too many penalties at scrum time gifted the Boks the platform to run their lineout-maul game, which is where the tries came from. Hansen does see the Baltimore showing as marginally improved in New Zealand's own lineout, and his broader argument is that none of these deficits are structural — they're fixable, and quickly. His reasoning for optimism rests on the All Blacks' internal pressure culture: losing the series will sit in the players' guts and drive the standard up. For Springbok supporters, this is a useful read on exactly which levers Rassie's team pulled to win the series, assessed by someone who knows All Blacks rugby from the inside.