{"id":19088,"date":"2024-06-25T10:28:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/south-africa-vs-ireland-let-them-keep-talking-mike-catt-shrugs-off-springboks-comments-before-test-series\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:28:05","slug":"south-africa-vs-ireland-let-them-keep-talking-mike-catt-shrugs-off-springboks-comments-before-test-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/south-africa-vs-ireland-let-them-keep-talking-mike-catt-shrugs-off-springboks-comments-before-test-series\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa vs Ireland: ‘Let them keep talking’ – Mike Catt shrugs off Springboks comments before Test series"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Catt confirmed Ireland have no fresh injury concerns in their 35-man squad after Jamison Gibson-Park was ruled out with a hamstring injury<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

The squad assembled in Dublin last week and will depart for Johannesburg on Tuesday, with the first Test in Pretoria on 6 July and the second in Durban seven days later.<\/p>\n

While Ireland have not played since the Six Nations, Rassie Erasmus’ Boks warmed up for the series with a 41-13 win over Wales<\/a> at Twickenham on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“Again, it’s a new coaching staff in South Africa too. We’ve got a few new changes, so it is a little bit different, but it’s exciting and it’s why we play the game,” observed Catt.<\/p>\n

“It’s exciting to go and challenge yourself against the best in the world. That’s the opportunity these guys have got. Hopefully we can go make the most of it.<\/p>\n

“The young boys coming in [for South Africa] came off the bench, got their first caps and were electric. Then the old heads, your Pieter-Steph du Toit, Jesse Kriel and those guys are world class. We need to make sure that we understand how we can try and put one over them.”<\/p>\n

Catt added: “I think we have a clear understanding of what their strengths are.<\/p>\n

“How to manipulate those strengths into our favour, it’s something that we need to get right in two weeks’ time.<\/p>\n

“We know what they’re bringing. There’s a lot of emotion, a lot of physicality and they’re exceptionally good rugby players. We need to make sure we understand how we can try and turn them over.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Catt confirmed Ireland have no fresh injury concerns in their 35-man squad after Jamison Gibson-Park was ruled out with a hamstring injury last week. The squad assembled in Dublin last week and will depart for Johannesburg on Tuesday, with the first Test in Pretoria on 6 July and the second in Durban seven days later. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19090,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions\/19090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}