{"id":21737,"date":"2013-08-07T00:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/springboks-hire-new-assistant-coach\/"},"modified":"2013-08-07T00:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T22:55:04","slug":"springboks-hire-new-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/springboks-hire-new-assistant-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Springboks hire new assistant coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=12597\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12597\" alt=\"Heyneke Meyer. Photo: Gallo Images \" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ce864_HeynekeMeyer120528PotraitG300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heyneke Meyer. Photo: Gallo Images<\/p>\n<p>Scottish coach <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Richie Gray (rugby player)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richie_Gray_%28rugby_player%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Richie Gray<\/a> will be South Africa\u2019s assistant coach for the rest of the 2013 Test season, the Springboks having hired him as a \u201cbreakdown consultant\u201d for The Rugby Championship and their end-of-year tour to Britain and France.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRichie brings a lot of knowledge on breakdowns and I am confident he will add value,\u201d Springboks <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/springbok-coach-faces-tough-task\/\" target=\"_blank\">head coach Heyneke Meyer<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have known him for a decade and have always been impressed with his level of dedication when it comes to ruck play.<\/p>\n<p>There are between 120 and 160 rucks in every game and last year we saw that it is an area of the game where we can improve vastly. I do think there has been a step up in the way the Springboks played the breakdown this season, but we can definitely improve further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gray, 43, has coached at various levels in Scotland and abroad, and is widely regarded as a specialist in breakdown play. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espnscrum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AAP<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/springbok-coach-faces-tough-task\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ce864_191287727_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/springbok-coach-faces-tough-task\/\" target=\"_blank\">Springbok coach faces tough task<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/rugby-forward-potgieter-joins-waratahs\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ce864_191287732_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/rugby-forward-potgieter-joins-waratahs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rugby forward Potgieter joins Waratahs<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/selectors-name-springbok-squad-for-argentina-series\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ce864_190598467_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/selectors-name-springbok-squad-for-argentina-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">Selectors name Springbok squad for Argentina series<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/121f3_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heyneke Meyer. Photo: Gallo Images Scottish coach Richie Gray will be South Africa\u2019s assistant coach for the rest of the 2013 Test season, the Springboks having hired him as a \u201cbreakdown consultant\u201d for The Rugby Championship and their end-of-year tour to Britain and France. \u201cRichie brings a lot of knowledge on breakdowns and I am [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/21737","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=21737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}