{"id":14181,"date":"2012-09-02T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T13:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/rugby-all-blacks-to-go-for-jugular-against-pumas\/"},"modified":"2012-09-02T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T13:35:47","slug":"rugby-all-blacks-to-go-for-jugular-against-pumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rugby-all-blacks-to-go-for-jugular-against-pumas\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby-All Blacks to go for jugular against Pumas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">Sept 2<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Not content with crushing Australia to<br \/>\nretain the Bledisloe Cup, New Zealand will be looking to sharpen<br \/>\ntheir attack even further against Argentina next weekend.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Having beaten the Wallabies 27-19 and 22-0 to open their<br \/>\nRugby Championship campaign over the past two weeks, All Blacks<br \/>\ncoach Steve Hansen wants more ruthlessness from his side.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to put quite a bit of polish on it,&#8221; Hansen told<br \/>\nreporters. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t that happy with our last performance.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We played with great intensity and great purpose but we<br \/>\nweren&#8217;t very accurate and we need to be a lot more accurate if<br \/>\nwe want to be happy with our performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world champion All Blacks, who coughed up several<br \/>\ntry-scoring chances against Australia, are at full strength for<br \/>\nthe clash against the Pumas in Wellington on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand beat Argentina 33-10 in the quarter-finals of<br \/>\nlast year&#8217;s World Cup but the scoreline slightly flattered the<br \/>\ntournament winners who were troubled early on.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think they&#8217;re coming here to try and win this game as<br \/>\nthey did in the quarter-final,&#8221; said Hansen. &#8220;They were bitterly<br \/>\ndisappointed at the end of that.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They clearly thought they could win and we&#8217;ll be expecting<br \/>\nthem to come out and try and win the game. We will be doing our<br \/>\nutmost to make sure we win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Argentina opened the Rugby Championship with a 27-6 loss to<br \/>\nSouth Africa in Cape Town before holding the Springboks 16-16 in<br \/>\na forward dominated contest in Mendoza last weekend.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Not content with crushing Australia to retain the Bledisloe Cup, New Zealand will be looking to sharpen their attack even further against Argentina next weekend. Having beaten the Wallabies 27-19 and 22-0 to open their Rugby Championship campaign over the past two weeks, All Blacks coach Steve Hansen wants more ruthlessness [&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-14181","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\/14181","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=14181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}