Jason Ryan believes that the All Blacks’ scrum will fare better during the November leg of the Nations Championship after the set-piece struggled against the Springboks.

The scrum was a major talking point throughout the series, with Rassie Erasmus and Dave Rennie trading barbs in the media around the perception of the set-piece.

New Zealand were on the back foot in that facet of the game for the majority of the four Tests against South Africa, but Ryan believes that they started to turn the tide during the latter games and took those improvements into the Bledisloe Cup matches against Australia.

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