With the series locked at 1-1 heading into Saturday's third Test at FNB Stadium, Ardie Savea is under no illusions about what went wrong in Cape Town — or what it will take to fix it. His assessment is blunt: the All Blacks lost the fine margins last week, the Boks punished them for it, and doing the same in Soweto effectively hands South Africa a series lead heading to Baltimore. Savea flags the usual Bok pressure points — box kicks, set-piece dominance, momentum-building — and warns his side they cannot expect to wrestle control back once the Springboks get their rhythm. He's also signalling that Erasmus's late front-row switch before the Cape Town Test didn't rattle them, and that they're treating unpredictability as a given. The bigger concern he raises is structural: the All Blacks have been slow starters across recent matches, and against a Bok side that converts early ascendancy into scoreboard pressure, that's a pattern they can't afford to repeat.