Mowen confident of Wallabies return to form ahead of Springboks clash "The group's motivated, and there's a really good feeling amongst the players": Ben Mowen of the Wallabies. Cape Town: Ben Mowen believes it is a matter of time before things click for the Wallabies and a physical clash with the Springboks is what the group needs. The team trained on Tuesday afternoon after arriving in Cape Town late on Monday night. After their 38-12 humbling in Brisbane two weeks ago they know what awaits them at Newlands Stadium - a tough, direct clash with one of the most intimidating packs in world rugby. Mowen, expected to start in the back row this week, said it was the match they needed. Bouncing back: Ben Mowen hopes the Wallabies can turn their run of poor performances around against the Springboks. "There's a feeling within this group that we haven't played near our potential yet," he said. And although it's early on and under a new coach, we're still well off in areas we'd like to be [strong at]. But that's good, the group's motivated, and there's a really good feeling amongst the players. The Springboks had a tough match against the All Blacks and won a lot of important areas there and they'll want to do that again against us on Saturday night but we're excited by that challenge. A result against the Springboks at Newlands would be huge. The Springboks are riding high after an excellent start to the Rugby Championship put them in a position to chase New Zealand for this year's title. Coach Heyneke Meyer was downplaying the importance of a series victory over the All Blacks but it will be difficult to block from the squad's thinking; the local media has the Championship in their sights and Meyer was not shying away from their ambitions. We gave ourselves the opportunity to still win the Championship, but we are going to have to play two great games," he said. We don't want to go for a bonus point as that should take care of itself, but we just need to focus on the basics and play the same type of game that we played in the previous game. Mowen said it was important the Wallabies not allow their opponents a second-half blow-out as they did in Brisbane. "We probably drained a lot of juice in the first half trying to achieve things with not much reward, then we paid in the back half of the second half, they were able to find gaps and convert that to points," he said. I think we've got a better balance in terms of what we expect there, but our mindset is always going to be attacking. We've got a really good attacking side so we have to make sure we back those guys and the more times we're in those situations the better we'll be. Just one win from four Tests under new coach Ewen McKenzie, the team is searching desperately for the winning formula. Mowen said their 14-13 win in Perth last week gave them heart and a few solid clues to follow in search for the second scalp. "It's very different in international rugby where you come together maybe two weeks before your first game," he said. You work extremely hard at that but it does take time. The important thing for us is that we've got to be patient and keep chipping away at improving our game. The really important thing is that the attitude is really important in the group. It's a very driven group and we're excited by that challenge, not daunted by it. It's only going to be a matter of time off the back of a tough win against the Argentinian team, I think the guys are in a really good head space.