Two ex-All Blacks front-rowers offer contrasting reads on the scrum chaos and Erasmus's post-match explosion after Cape Town. Parsons is genuinely puzzled by the fury — the Boks were pinged just once for walking around, so Erasmus was effectively raging against an accusation that had cost South Africa almost nothing in penalty terms. His logic: if the referee isn't punishing it, why blow up about the label? Taʻavao sees it differently. The Boks came into the second Test as the world's dominant scrummaging force, disrupted plenty of All Blacks ball, and still walked away with a single scrum penalty in their favour. The frustration isn't about the walking-around call itself — it's about not being rewarded for what they believe was genuine dominance. On the reset cycle itself, Parsons offers a candid front-rower's confession: nobody changes their scrum tactics mid-game unless they're actually being penalised, which explains why Gardner's 'play on' calls just produced an endless loop of resets rather than any correction in behaviour. Both pundits acknowledge the All Blacks got the rub of the green from Carley in the first Test but argue officiating didn't decide the Cape Town result either way.