Kevin van der Berg's verdict on the Durban Test is brutally honest: a collective C-grade performance from a team that imposed itself physically but never maintained the intensity to match. The comfort of a dominant early lead, combined with Wales's near-total absence of threat — just 42 attack metres in the first half — produced the same stop-start pattern that's defined this Nations Championship campaign. Van der Berg picks out the positives individually: debutant tighthead Carlu Sadie was destructive at scrum, lock Ruben van Heerden showed a Matfield-like calm at the lineout, and Cobus Reinach earns man-of-the-match honours for his scrum pressure and electric attack. But the collective was undone by 11 first-half handling errors and a team that banked the bonus point by the 42nd minute and mentally clocked off. The broader takeaway, though, is that Erasmus got what he came for across the three July Tests — game time, new combinations, three wins, and Nations Championship league leadership heading south.