Dave Rennie is walking a careful line ahead of the Baltimore decider: acknowledging the All Blacks were badly hurt at scrum time in Soweto — including the penalty try that levelled the scores just before half-time — while signalling that New Zealand's read of what's actually happening in those set-pieces doesn't align with World Rugby's or the officials'. He's been direct that conversations with World Rugby have happened, that there's partial but not full agreement, and that the current referee focus on the hooker's brake foot is, in his view, causing them to miss other infringements. His reluctance to push the scrum narrative too hard publicly is strategic — he doesn't want it to dominate the week — but the underlying grievance is clearly still live. The piece is worth reading for Rennie's specific brake-foot argument and what it reveals about the technical dispute New Zealand is trying to prosecute through official channels.