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The Springboks have gathered in New Zealand after achieving their third biggest victory over Australia in a 43-12 (halftime 17-5) Rugby Championship victory at Loftus Versfeld.

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The 31-point margin of victory has only been eclipsed twice in 93 meetings between the teams (a 53-8 victory in Johannesburg in 2008 and a 61-22 victory also at Loftus in 1997), but they will now be preparing for a much more competitive clash against an All Blacks side that started their season with a similarly impressive 41-12 win over Argentina.

With the Springboks facing the All Blacks in Auckland on Saturday, it’s important to note that kick off will take place at 09.05am SA time, while the build up to the match will begin on SuperSport from 8am.

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Springboks full of confidence

Meanwhile, the Springboks side to face the All Blacks will be announced at 09:00 (SA time) on Tuesday, 11 July, and assistant coach Mzwandile Stick said they were thrilled to have laid a “good foundation” against Australia.

“There’s a lot of things we can improve on, but we’ll take the result any day. If you had said in the week that we’d have scored 43 points against Australia, we’d have said you were dreaming. But we have something to work on.”

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Stick picked out finishing as one of those areas to be improved: “There was a point in the game where we had a lot of entries into Australian 22 and we didn’t convert – and there were couple of line breaks as well – and I think that’s where we need to keep on improving.

“We have to make sure we convert those into points – when we play against the All Blacks and Argentina, we’re not going to get ten opportunities; we’re only get four or five and you need to convert them.”

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He also said that the style of play did not represent a new departure so much as an evolution: “We don’t call it expansive, like we have always said, if we create opportunities the guys have the freedom to exploit them.

“We were just happy with how we executed our game plan and once again if it wasn’t for the way we defended early in the game those opportunities wouldn’t have come later.

“The most important thing for us is to keep improving as a team. It’s a World Cup year and everyone is focusing on it, but we want to make sure we keep building and to have a start like this – even though there is a lot of room for improvement – is something we can work on.

“We’re really happy with the manner in which we won this game because Australia came and they were physical – but credit to the our players they played for 80 minutes.”