{"id":16375,"date":"2025-11-28T19:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/springboks-well-prepared-for-wales-clash-siya-kolisi\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:33","slug":"springboks-well-prepared-for-wales-clash-siya-kolisi","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/springboks-well-prepared-for-wales-clash-siya-kolisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Springboks well prepared for Wales clash: Siya Kolisi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springbok captain Siya Kolisi says Wales will get a well prepared South African side when the two sides meet in Cardiff on Saturday in the final match of the international season.<\/p>\n<p>The Springboks are shooting for a second successive unbeaten end of year tour, and enter their final match of the year as the overwhelming favourites against Wales.<\/p>\n<p>But Kolisi says the Springboks will always prepare properly for every opponent they face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis weekend\u2019s team this is all about the players that we could have for this game and I am very excited for them. We are keen, we know how Wales will come out for us this weekend, so we are pretty excited for the game and we are going to give it our all and give it everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kolisi adds, \u201cIf we come here and be arrogant, we know we have seen what happens if you don\u2019t prepare right for a team. We saw how well they played last weekend they had amazing moments in the game and I think only later in the game New Zealand pulled away so we are going to have to start with the intensity and play within our standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16099,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-16375","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kolisi says the Springboks will always prepare properly for every opponent they face.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Kolisi says the Springboks will always prepare properly for every opponent they face.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16375","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\/16375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20210,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/16375\/revisions\/20210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=16375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}