Charlie Morgan argued that the third test in Soweto had the unmistakable feel of a decider — the tension on players' faces, Malcolm Marx thumping the turf after his try, the echoes of Fitzpatrick in '96 — and that the Baltimore fourth test exists primarily to generate revenue rather than settle anything meaningful. His analysis of what made the Boks tick centred on the scrum and maul as relentless pressure valves, but he also pointed to a more expansive attacking thread that he felt Tony Brown's influence had finally made visible: the Kobus Kok turnover that triggered the Jasper Wiese offload, Ox Nché, Manny Libbok sequence was, in Morgan's words, 'a sequence that married their ambition with the ball with this power.' He reserved his sharpest praise for the veteran core — Etzebeth, Kolisi, Jesse Kriel, Damian de Allende — arguing that a side with that many players who can sense and seize momentum shifts in high-stakes moments is extraordinarily difficult to dislodge in knockout rugby. On the World Cup horizon, Morgan flagged a potentially brutal draw path through New Zealand and France, and Rassie's own admission that rotating for depth may have cost some attacking cohesion, while Elgin Alderman noted that despite all the Bok dominance, a single moment — Will Jordan's clearance drifting just too long — nearly changed everything in the third test.