On The Verdict podcast, Hanyani Shimange, Jean de Villiers, and Schalk Burger gave the scrum contest at Loftus a thorough post-mortem — and the verdict was broadly positive, with some caveats. The trio credited referee Pierre Brousset for allowing a genuine set-piece battle, contrasting his approach with the more permissive Super Rugby style, while Shimange pointedly noted that having Daan Human and Pieter de Villiers as scrum coaches on either side guaranteed neither team would look to game the referee. Scotland, through Schoeman and Fagerson, largely held their own — which made Wilco Louw's moment in the fourth scrum all the more notable. Shimange flagged it as genuinely rare: Louw drove Schoeman — a loosehead — up and out of the scrum, when it's almost always the loosehead who lifts the tighthead in that way. Burger confirmed the mechanics, calling it "proper power." The group also dissected a missed penalty opportunity from the first scrum, where Evan Roos let a well-won ball escape past his weaker foot — Burger walking through exactly why the positioning error made it unrecoverable.