RUCK N ROLL
GAVIN RICH: Jury out over Super Rugby coaches’ process emphasis
The 2018 Super Rugby season will be remembered as an underwhelming one for South African teams, but judging from what local coaches have been saying in the media, relief will soon be at hand. The year of no excuses will be 2019. Witness Stormers assistant coach Paul Feeney, who spoke of 2019 — the culmination of what he views as a three-year plan — as the one in which the Stormers’ coaches should face judgment. "Year one is about learning to work together and your planning in terms of who you’re contracting and where your holes are," said Feeney. "Year two you want to build on it a bit and year three you should be all guns blazing. That’s how we’ve gone about it." So the good news for Stormers’ fans is that their team will be "all guns blazing" in 2019. There won’t be any excuses. Assuming that all the coaches retain their positions beyond this season, it will be a similar story for the Sharks. Robert du Preez has also made reference to a three-year plan. Like Robbie Fleck’s group, ...
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