THE scrum battle in the first two Tests of the series between South Africa and New Zealand has been fascinating, as has the war of words sparked by All Blacks head coach Dave Rennie’s allegations of South Africa walking around to create a deliberate wheel.
My read on it is that Springbok loosehead Ox Nche is a scrum superman, and that All Blacks tight-head Tyrel Lomax has been unable to contain him.
In the first Test, Nche drove straight through Lomax on multiple occasions, making allegations of wheeling preposterous – while Springbok tighthead Wilco Louw also blasted t...