Springboks quick to move on from All Black trouncing

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August 27, 2023

The Springboks don’t have any time to savour their triumph over the All Blacks which now has little bearing on their Rugby World Cup campaign.

Coach Jacques Nienaber was pleased with how things went but quick to point out that the warm-up win has no bearing on the outcome of the RWC.

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Nienanber was more interested in the progress his team had made ahead of the showpiece.

“After the loss to New Zealand [in Auckland in July] we had to make some plans and adjusted a couple of things,” Nienaber told Rugby365.

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“The players came up with some good suggestions and the management also had some suggestions.

“We found some solutions.

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“Some of them worked and some didn’t.

“However, we won’t get a single point in the World Cup for this win.”

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Nienaber was concerned that the Springboks weren’t terribly clinical when it came to taking their chances against New Zealand.

“For us, it’s a good performance in terms of certain things we wanted to get right,” Nienaber added.

“Then there’s a lot of things that we didn’t get right.

“I thought we had a lot of opportunities in the first 20 minutes.

“I think in the whole game there were about eight opportunities where we got held up twice.”

Th Springboks have been drawn in Rugby World Cup Pool B alongside Ireland, Scotland, Tonga and Romania.

Sunday 10 Sept South Africa v Scotland (Stade Vélodrome, Marseille)

Sunday 17 Sept South Africa v Romania (Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux)

Saturday 23 Sept South Africa v Ireland (Stade de France, Saint-Denis)

Sunday 1 Oct South Africa v Tonga (Stade Vélodrome, Marseille)