The Boks made the long journey from South Africa to Auckland on Tuesday via Sydney, and will have a gym session and recovery day on Thursday before taking the field for their first training session on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Boks will battle it out with the All Blacks at Eden Park on Saturday 6 September, and at the Sky Stadium in Wellington a week later on 13 September.<\/p>\n
They will then return to South Africa to face Argentina in Durban on Saturday 27 September, before wrapping up their campaign against the Pumas in London on 4 October.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe travelled well, and although it\u2019s a long trip to New Zealand, we are excited to be here and we are looking forward to the challenge ahead,\u201d said Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always tough playing here, but the group is in good spirits, and we are fully aware of the magnitude of the task ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith all four teams in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship having won one match so far and the standings very tight at this stage, there\u2019s no doubt that the next two games will be crucial in our campaign, so it\u2019s good that we travelled early in the week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe time zone and conditions are obviously very different from back home, so it\u2019s important that we acclimatise and settle in as quickly as possible to ensure that we are sharp at training and ready to be at our best by the time we face the All Blacks next weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a week and a half to prepare for the first match, Erasmus said managing the players effectively in the next few days was essential to get the best out of them on the field.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve worked out our training schedule this week in a way that would allow the players to recover from the two physical matches against Australia, while at the same time steadily get into the swing of things for the next two matches,\u201d said Erasmus.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we will have only two training sessions this week and then go full throttle into normal Test match mode from Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both matches will kick off at 09h05 (SA time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boks made the long journey from South Africa to Auckland on Tuesday via Sydney, and will have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-99598","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\/99598","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=99598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}