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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_Ezequiel" data-source="post: 534313" data-attributes="member: 42683"><p>Versatility is the most common cause of quality players ending up on the bench or leaving. We Sharks fans know all about that! Russell, Pienaar, Steyn, Lambie... We messed up a lot lately in player management. Don't make the same mistake in Cape Town man!</p><p></p><p>I feel though, no player should be playing every match anyway. It's just too much to handle for rugby players to perform 40 weeks in a row. Look at the Crusaders prop-management for example. They rotated Ben Franks, Owen Franks and Wyatt Crockett. None of them played more than 4 consecutive matches during the Super Rugby season. We should work out something similar as well in South Africa. In Durban we can try that with the versatile Allan Dell (who really surprised everyone when he played against the Cheetahs) and other youngsters like Nick Schonert, Wiehahn Herbst and Dale Chadwick (although the latter is not my favorite).</p><p></p><p>At best, a player should only be playing 65% of his teams matches. When the SA teams play the Kings, Force and Rebels you can easily give the big guns a rest (not all at once though!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_Ezequiel, post: 534313, member: 42683"] Versatility is the most common cause of quality players ending up on the bench or leaving. We Sharks fans know all about that! Russell, Pienaar, Steyn, Lambie... We messed up a lot lately in player management. Don't make the same mistake in Cape Town man! I feel though, no player should be playing every match anyway. It's just too much to handle for rugby players to perform 40 weeks in a row. Look at the Crusaders prop-management for example. They rotated Ben Franks, Owen Franks and Wyatt Crockett. None of them played more than 4 consecutive matches during the Super Rugby season. We should work out something similar as well in South Africa. In Durban we can try that with the versatile Allan Dell (who really surprised everyone when he played against the Cheetahs) and other youngsters like Nick Schonert, Wiehahn Herbst and Dale Chadwick (although the latter is not my favorite). At best, a player should only be playing 65% of his teams matches. When the SA teams play the Kings, Force and Rebels you can easily give the big guns a rest (not all at once though!) [/QUOTE]
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