Erasmus is content with the character shown in Buenos Aires but unambiguous that the attack needs work before Ellis Park on August 22. He frames the 17-10 win as a deliberate grind rather than an underperformance — seven or eight players were severely underdone for game time after injury layoffs, and he had expected the disjointed spells that materialised. The defensive line, conceding a single try from a fixable offload, gives him something to build on. His broader takeaway is almost a mindset cue for the All Blacks series: knockout-level rugby is always close, and the Boks now have a tight, hostile-crowd win banked as reference material. An intensive Johannesburg camp this week is where the attacking fluency will need to find its feet.