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Bok coach confident NZ loss is behind them: 'We've done everything we could to find solutions'

Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber says they've put last weekend's 35-20 loss to New Zealand in Auckland behind them. 

All the focus is now on next weekend's final Rugby Championship encounter against Argentina at Ellis Pak in Johannesburg.

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The full Springbok squad assembled in camp on Wednesday after a two-day break for the players who featured in New Zealand.

"The last two days were very important in the sense that we had a chance to do an honest assessment about what went wrong against New Zealand and to identify what we need to correct in our game going into our final match of the competition and the World Cup warm-up games," Nienaber said on Friday.

The Bok mentor added that he was confident that the mistakes made against the All Blacks had been addressed.

"We were bitterly disappointed with last week's performance, and we are well aware of the fact that we can't make the same errors if we want to get our season back on track and build momentum.

"We've done everything we could to find solutions to the errors we made last week, and we've already started working on it at our field sessions, so we can now put that behind us and move forward."

The Boks had four training sessions and a few gym sessions before getting the weekend off.

"When we reassemble on Sunday our focus will be purely on Argentina, so we'll hit the ground running again from Monday," Nienaber added.

They will continue their preparations in Pretoria early next week, before making the short trip to Johannesburg on Wednesday where they will wrap up their on-field work.

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