The Springboks have won 13 (87%) of their past 15 Tests, including Rugby World Cup 2023 along the way. Can they stay at that level now?

The Boks have won the past two Rugby World Cups, which has given the country so much joy and hope that it might seem greedy to demand more of them.

If you had asked just about any South African in the minutes leading up to last year's final in Saint-Denis if they would have traded every win between the World Cups to guarantee victory at the tournament, the answer would have been "yes".

But with the benefit of hindsight and distance from those emotionally charged weeks, is it time to pose a different question? Is the next stage of the Boks' evolution not only to win a third consecutive Rugby World Cup (RWC) title in Australia in 2027 (that goal is a constant), but also to become the most dominant team between World Cups?

It's easy to dismiss this idea in the heat of a World Cup campaign, when focus is narrowed to a single objective for the right to be called world champions.

As South Africans we know how great that feeling is, and how much it means to the country. Ireland, who were the best team in the two years leading up to RWC 2023, and France, the...