Angus Bell's season with Ulster gave him regular exposure to South African provincial rugby, and his takeaway is blunt: the Springboks have fundamentally reshaped how forward-heavy rugby is played. Bell singles out the Bomb Squad model — the 6-2 bench split and the scrum-and-maul platform — as the template that URC clubs have now widely adopted, and argues it's the core reason South African rugby has been so dominant. His comments are notable because they come from a front-rower who spent a season going head-to-head with SA provincial scrums week-to-week, not just at Test level. He describes every South African scrum as something you have to actively attack rather than merely manage — a framing that speaks directly to why the Bok set-piece remains such a psychological weapon. For Springbok fans, it's a useful outside-in confirmation that what Erasmus built isn't just a Test-match trick — it's reshaping the global forward game.