Steven Kitshoff offers a rare inside look at how Erasmus builds player buy-in for his more unconventional tactical wrinkles. The core insight: roughly 95% of Bok preparation is orthodox — kicking game, attack structure, defensive shape — and Erasmus frames his innovations as a targeted 5% edge, pitching them explicitly as ways to manufacture unfair advantages within the laws. Kitshoff uses the midfield maul as the case study: the logic isn't novelty for its own sake, but rather forcing a mismatch — forwards-on-backs collision situations where South Africa's size advantage becomes decisive. The sell to players is simple: here's what we gain from this. Nyakane adds another layer, noting that the trick plays also keep training fresh and that their effectiveness in-game is partly a function of genuine surprise — teams don't prepare for what they haven't seen.