{"id":22006,"date":"2013-08-20T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/meyer-urges-boks-to-maintain-killer-instinct-against-argentina\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:37:29","slug":"meyer-urges-boks-to-maintain-killer-instinct-against-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/meyer-urges-boks-to-maintain-killer-instinct-against-argentina\/","title":{"rendered":"Meyer urges Boks to maintain killer instinct against Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=13980\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13980\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980\" alt=\"Heyneke Meyer. Photo: Gallo Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/55640_5bf387e4df9f4317ab14624b228d2cde.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heyneke Meyer. Photo: Gallo Images<\/p>\n<p>Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer has challenged his team to show the same ruthlessness they showed at home when they take on Argentina in Mendoza on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>After winning their opening game of the 2013 Rugby Championship by 73-13 at Soccer City last Saturday, the Boks return to the scene of arguably their worst performance in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, after comfortably beating the Pumas 27-6 at Newlands, they were held to a 16-16 draw in Mendoza \u2013 and were fortunate to come away with that result.<\/p>\n<p>The Boks now have a realistic chance to win their first away Rugby Championship game under Meyer in their fourth attempt, after losses to Australia and New Zealand in Perth and Dunedin in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are developing a killer instinct as a team and the challenge is now to have that same killer instinct away from home,\u201d Meyer said at a media briefing in Buenos Aires on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are growing as a team \u2013 we won three away games in Europe last season where we had to grind them out \u2013 and have to make a step up from that tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/springboks-dont-cry-for-argentina\/\" target=\"_blank\">We have put last weekend behind us and our mindset is now to be ruthless against an opponent that is wounded<\/a>. We were clinical at the weekend, winning 15 out of 15 lineouts and eight out of eight scrums.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t just throw the ball around but played with structure and purpose and wore them down. That is what we have to build on this week,\u201d he said. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdlive.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Business Day Live<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more breaking Springbok news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/springboks\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\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\/8f93e_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heyneke Meyer. Photo: Gallo Images Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer has challenged his team to show the same ruthlessness they showed at home when they take on Argentina in Mendoza on Saturday. After winning their opening game of the 2013 Rugby Championship by 73-13 at Soccer City last Saturday, the Boks return to the scene of [&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-22006","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\/22006","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=22006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}