Dave Rennie has been candid about what went wrong in Soweto — New Zealand's own handling errors fed directly into the scrum cycle that allowed the Boks to repeatedly piggyback upfield through penalties and driving maul. His solution for the Baltimore decider is blunt: be more accurate in possession to keep the scrum out of the game, and then trust referee Karl Dickson to read the pictures correctly — a pointed remark given the ongoing All Blacks-World Rugby dispute over scrum legalities. To address the set-piece itself, Rennie has retained only Sam Darry from the starting tight five. A shortened preparation week — both teams shared a charter flight to the US with travel delays — has limited his ability to actually fix the mechanics on the training paddock, which makes the selection overhaul feel more like a personnel gamble than a structural solution. In the loose forwards, injuries to Savea and Jacobson have reshuffled the deck, with Tupou Vaa'i moving to six, Ethan Blackadder starting at blindside, and Wallace Sititi again on the bench despite near-starting consideration. The piece is worth reading for Rennie's unusually direct admission that the Boks' scramble defence and continuity-disruption was the real problem — not just New Zealand's set-piece — and for what his squad selections reveal about his priorities going into a series-levelling Test.