Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry prediction: All Blacks to edge Springboks on a fast track after a week in which the scrum swallowed the series whole

Rassie Erasmus has answered his Cape Town win with a single enforced change, Dave Rennie has answered his Cape Town defeat by dropping Codie Taylor out of the 23 altogether, and in between the two announcements the sport has spent seven days arguing about the angle of a front-row bind.

Whoever loses at FNB Stadium on Saturday cannot win this series.

The top line

The set-piece has kept every rugby page on Facebook, X and Instagram, and a fair slice of the media in this sport, in business this week, and it has been quite a fortnight of it, with slow-motion