Appearing on Boks Unpacked X The Verdict, Os du Randt reflects on three shifts he lived through as rugby crossed from amateur to professional. The most thought-provoking is his point on money: using Thomas du Toit's positional switch to tighthead as the example, Du Randt argues that financial stakes fundamentally change a player's decision-making in ways that simply wouldn't have applied in the amateur era — he himself once chose to drop to the B side rather than switch positions, precisely because there was nothing financial on the line. He's equally candid about schoolboy pressure, arguing parents and sponsorship culture are loading too much onto young players too early. On the fighting, he's nostalgic but pragmatic — the brawls are largely gone, and he's mostly fine with that, even if citing and banning culture has replaced raw consequence with bureaucratic punishment.