With the 73-0 Cardiff humiliation still raw, Wales forwards coach Danny Wilson is leaning on Scotland's Nations Championship performance at Loftus as a credible blueprint — the Scots drew level at half-time and pulled back to within seven before a late Bok try ended their resistance. It's a thin thread, but it's the one Wales are pulling. Wilson acknowledges his side also needs to recover from a disappointing loss to Argentina, while recognising that Erasmus has been rotating his squad through the Nations Championship without any drop in quality — a depth problem Wales are actively trying to build toward themselves, with the 2027 World Cup in mind. The broader numbers are sobering: 241 points conceded across the last five meetings, an average losing margin of 37. A nation that won five of six Tests against the Boks between 2014 and 2018 is now firmly in damage-limitation territory, and Wilson knows it — though he's citing a 2022 win in Bloemfontein as a reference point for what's still theoretically possible.