{"id":13966,"date":"2025-10-28T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/japans-loss-to-australia-makes-springboks-sit-up-take-notice\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:40","slug":"japans-loss-to-australia-makes-springboks-sit-up-take-notice","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/japans-loss-to-australia-makes-springboks-sit-up-take-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s loss to Australia makes Springboks sit up, take notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Boks will play Japan at Wembley stadium this Saturday in the first of five matches on the end of year tour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Springbok assistant coach, Jerry Flannery says the Brave Blossoms are a complete side that will take some beating. The Boks are preparing for a busy November with five test matches scheduled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">First up will be Japan at Wembley Stadium in London, and after a narrow 19-15 loss to Australia in Tokyo, Bok assistant coach, Jerry Flannery says Japan are the real deal and will offer the Boks plenty of resistance to kick-off the tour of the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Looking at the game, I think they showed an looking at the game I think they showed an awful lot of resilience in the first half despite the yellow cards, and they showed how well they can defend against one of the best sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Australia scored six tries against us in the first game in the Castle Lager Rugby Championship, so we are aware that Japan are not just a really good attacking side, they can defend really well too, and in the last quarter, they came back into the game, and they would be disappointed that they didn&#8217;t win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Awful lot of resilience in the first half despite the yellow cards, and they showed how well they can defend against one of the best sides Australia scored six tries against us in the first game in the championship, so we are aware that Japan are not just a really good attacking side, they can defend really well too, and in the last quarter, they came back into the game, and they would be disappointed that they didn&#8217;t win,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13967,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13966","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Japan's four-point loss to Australia over the weekend has made the Springboks sit up and take notice","published_date":"2025-10-28 00:00:00","news_description":"Japan's four-point loss to Australia over the weekend has made the Springboks sit up and take notice","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18841,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13966\/revisions\/18841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}