{"id":11263,"date":"2012-06-08T23:04:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T21:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/rugby-springboks-leap-into-the-unknown-against-england\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T23:04:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T21:04:56","slug":"rugby-springboks-leap-into-the-unknown-against-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-springboks-leap-into-the-unknown-against-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-Springboks leap into the unknown against England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jason Humphries<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DURBAN, JUNE 8 &#8211; Whether South Africa can hit the ground<br \/>\nrunning after a limited build up is the big unknown ahead of the<br \/>\nfirst test against England in Durban on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Springboks will be playing their first match under new<br \/>\ncoach Heyneke Meyer and after just four training sessions<br \/>\ntogether, they meet an England team who surprised in finishing<br \/>\nsecond in this year&#8217;s Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some of South Africa&#8217;s lack of preparation will be off-set<br \/>\nby a series of training camps Meyer conducted with the country&#8217;s<br \/>\nSuper Rugby franchises in recent weeks and new captain Jean De<br \/>\nVilliers was quick to play down any suggestions his team would<br \/>\nbe underprepared.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mood in the camp is good,&#8221; De Villiers told a news<br \/>\nconference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have had a really good week of preparation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The camps that Heyneke had during the year with the<br \/>\nfranchises have really worked and we are reaping the rewards<br \/>\nnow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Much has been made of the time the Springboks have been<br \/>\ntogether before the series with most of the players involved<br \/>\nwith their franchises last weekend.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But England were not buying any perception South Africa<br \/>\ncould be caught short.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Humphries DURBAN, JUNE 8 &#8211; Whether South Africa can hit the ground running after a limited build up is the big unknown ahead of the first test against England in Durban on Saturday. The Springboks will be playing their first match under new coach Heyneke Meyer and after just four training sessions together, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}