{"id":749504,"date":"2026-06-20T20:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749504\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:53:10","slug":"bok-coaches-take-positives-and-work-ons-from-season-openers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749504\/","title":{"rendered":"Bok coaches take positives and work-ons from season openers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bok coaches take positives and work-ons from season openers\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"ArticleHero_image__RqLNq\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781988789_162_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Springboks<\/p>\n<p>Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus and SA \u2018A\u2019 coach Mzwandile Stick were pleased with their teams\u2019 victories as they registered impressive victories at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha on Saturday, but said there was hard work ahead to reach their desired standards before the Nations Championship kicks off in two weeks.<a class=\"Shop_btnYellow__EsqCB\" href=\"\"\/><a class=\"Shop_btnDark__98lz6\" href=\"\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Farrow-left.svg&amp;w=96&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Ficons%2Farrow-right.svg&amp;w=96&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fvectors%2FVector1.svg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fvectors%2FVector2.svg&amp;w=3840&amp;q=75\"\/><img alt=\"Springboks\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"294\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"Newsletter_logo__0QikA\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2FSpringboks-logo.svg&amp;w=750&amp;q=75\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"saru-logo\" width=\"220\" height=\"185\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"footer-logo\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/springboks.rugby\/_next\/image?url=%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Flogo.svg&amp;w=640&amp;q=75\"\/><\/a>\u00a9 2026 SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY \u00a0|\u00a0 PICTURES \u00a9 GALLO IMAGESBack to Top<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20 Jun 2026 Springboks Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus and SA \u2018A\u2019 coach Mzwandile Stick were pleased with their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-749504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}