{"id":8571,"date":"2013-08-06T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8571"},"modified":"2013-08-06T08:01:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T08:01:05","slug":"boks-gather-ahead-of-argentina-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8571","title":{"rendered":"Boks gather ahead of Argentina clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8573\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/heynekemeyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8573\" alt=\"Heyneke Meyer\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/heynekemeyer.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/heynekemeyer.jpg 294w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/heynekemeyer-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 85vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heyneke Meyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Springboks gathered on Monday for a training camp ahead of the Rugby Championship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coach Heyneke Meyer\u2019s squad of 30 players are preparing for their opening game against Argentina at FNB Stadium next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The squad includes a number of overseas-based players with Fourie du Preez the surprise selection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meyer explained that he has no hard and fast policy on selecting overseas-based players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SARU has given the Bok coach the go-ahead to pick them, and so this group of 30 includes players from France, Japan as well as Great Britain and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides for the surprise inclusion of Du Preez and perhaps Gurthro Steenkamp, the bulk of the squad has remained unchanged from the June internationals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meyer is looking to build on the small gains made during the June Tests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Boks were far from convincing against Italy, Scotland and Samoa so there is plenty to work on during this training camp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Zealand, Australia and their first opponents in the Rugby Championship,\u00a0Argentina, will be far tougher opponents. &#8211; eNCA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Springboks gathered on Monday for a training camp ahead of the Rugby Championship. Coach Heyneke Meyer\u2019s squad of 30 players are preparing for their opening game against Argentina at FNB Stadium next Saturday. The squad includes a number of overseas-based players with Fourie du Preez the surprise selection. Meyer explained that he has no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8571\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boks gather ahead of Argentina clash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,700],"tags":[2520,4788,1485,4787,4789],"class_list":["post-8571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport-news","tag-argentina","tag-fnb-stadium","tag-heyneke-meyer","tag-rugby-championship","tag-saru"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/heynekemeyer.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8575,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions\/8575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}