Kieran Read's post-mortem on the Soweto Test goes beyond the much-discussed scrum collapse, zeroing in on the small margins that flipped the game. His central argument: the All Blacks were competitive and, at stages, dominant — but a handful of individual errors compounded into decisive momentum shifts. The clearest example he cites is Cobus Reinach's turnover on halfway late in the first half, which triggered a Springbok counter, led to a scrum five metres out, a Ruben Love yellow card, and ultimately a penalty try — a sequence that turned what could have been an All Blacks lead into a level scoreline at the break. Read argues that without that error, the Boks never get into that position, and the game's entire complexion changes. He sees a similar pattern repeat in the second half. Tamaiti Williams echoes the diagnosis from the All Blacks side: the Boks consistently convert positive moments into points and chain them together, while New Zealand left too many opportunities on the table. The upshot is that Read and Williams see this as a game the All Blacks had the capacity to win — the series now hinges on whether they can clean up those margins in Baltimore.