With Dave Rennie's scrum accusations still reverberating after the two-Test series, Planet Rugby canvasses two respected outside voices. Hansen's take is characteristically pragmatic — no team scrums straight, so it ultimately comes down to what the referee decides to police. McKenzie goes further, flatly saying he watched the games and didn't see the Springboks walking around, framing the whole debate as over-heated. His more pointed criticism is actually aimed at how scrums are being refereed generally, arguing that turning set-pieces into free-kick festivals before engagement even happens serves nobody. On Erasmus's last-minute front-row switch before the Cape Town Test, McKenzie is dismissive of any tactical genius: the reshuffle simply meant both sides ended up running their strongest scrummaging units against each other in the second half anyway, with largely stable platforms as the result.