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<blockquote data-quote="unrated" data-source="post: 983728" data-attributes="member: 45773"><p>The Sharks have now come out and said that the team that lost to NWU-PUKKe was actually an experimental Sharks XV and not the actuall sharks players. They say there were 6 newly graduated schoolboys in the team, a few club players and some reserves. </p><p></p><p>Apparently their real squad was the one which played Russia, Russia put up a good fight in the first half but could not match the intensity of the Sharks so they dropped off. </p><p></p><p>We have lost huge amount of physicality this year and its good to hear our coach be candid about this. They will adapt our game. </p><p>Maybe we find some young gems who brings the physicality but as of now our only established world class players are in the backline. We are not going to find replacements for the du Preez brothers and company in such a short time so i agree with the coach, lets play a faster game. We all know the saying the forwards wins games, backs decides by how much. Maybe our forwards will come to the party but if we can put more of an emphasis on our backs to keep a fast, intense game going for 80 mins and only ask our forwards to play a facilitating role for the backs to do their thing then i think the coaches are onto something.</p><p></p><p>Its a time dominated by the rush defence, everyone saw it in the WC, all teams will try to emulate it. Why not then try something out of the box. Pace and intensity, thats the strategy for the Sharks this year, i hope it works better than our dominate the forwards at all cost gameplan of the past 15 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="unrated, post: 983728, member: 45773"] The Sharks have now come out and said that the team that lost to NWU-PUKKe was actually an experimental Sharks XV and not the actuall sharks players. They say there were 6 newly graduated schoolboys in the team, a few club players and some reserves. Apparently their real squad was the one which played Russia, Russia put up a good fight in the first half but could not match the intensity of the Sharks so they dropped off. We have lost huge amount of physicality this year and its good to hear our coach be candid about this. They will adapt our game. Maybe we find some young gems who brings the physicality but as of now our only established world class players are in the backline. We are not going to find replacements for the du Preez brothers and company in such a short time so i agree with the coach, lets play a faster game. We all know the saying the forwards wins games, backs decides by how much. Maybe our forwards will come to the party but if we can put more of an emphasis on our backs to keep a fast, intense game going for 80 mins and only ask our forwards to play a facilitating role for the backs to do their thing then i think the coaches are onto something. Its a time dominated by the rush defence, everyone saw it in the WC, all teams will try to emulate it. Why not then try something out of the box. Pace and intensity, thats the strategy for the Sharks this year, i hope it works better than our dominate the forwards at all cost gameplan of the past 15 years. [/QUOTE]
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