Springbok boss Rassie Erasmus is pleased the world champions are well recovered and poised to give everything they got in the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series.
Erasmus and his charges concluded two days of training on Saturday, with the objective to get the entire squad aligned with an eye on the four Tests starting next Saturday against the All Blacks in Joburg.
The Argentina travelling squad, which included 26 players, returned to South Africa in two groups on Monday and Tuesday, and spent most of the week recuperating after last week’s 17-10 win over Los Pumas.
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The squad returned to the training field on Friday and had another field session on Saturday before having the next day and a half off.
The four back-to-back Tests kick off at Ellis Park, before moving to Cape Town Stadium (29 August), FNB Stadium (5 September) and concluding at the M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore (12 September).
Bok hooker Johan Grobbelaar and utility forward Elrigh Louw, who have been released to play for the Vodacom Bulls against the All Blacks on Saturday evening, will rejoin the national squad on Sunday.
“It was important to manage the players who travelled to Argentina well and afford them sufficient time to recover from the match and switch back into the domestic time zone, which is why we only started training as a full group late in the week,” said Erasmus.
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“But we are pleased that the players are well recovered and ready to give everything for the forthcoming Tests against the All Blacks.
“It will undoubtedly be a very challenging series, but we are looking forward to it as a collective.
“This series is almost like playing the knockout stages of a World Cup because we are facing one of the world’s best week in and week out, and we all understand the magnitude of the series.
“It’s a new and exciting challenge, and we have been putting in a lot of work behind the scenes, especially the group of coaches and players who remained behind in South Africa in the last two weeks.
“We will fine-tune the areas of our game, which we would like to improve next week as we get ready to take the field.”
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