The age-old question of how you eat an elephant sprung to mind on Thursday when Lions captain Warren Whiteley explained how his team might go one better in Super Rugby this year. When facing a behemoth‚ Whiteley subscribes to the one bite at a time approach. "Super Rugby is a grind and you have to stick to your processes‚" he said. "We don’t look at it as a whole competition but we break it up into weeks. "As a player you start getting into a rhythm within the competition. We focus on our performance and not the result. "We are seeing this as an entirely new challenge. As a group we haven’t achieved anything yet‚" Whiteley pointed out. The Lions seemed to master the weekly grind in reaching the last two finals only to trip up against New Zealand opposition in the final. They appear to have the weekly grind down pat‚ but it is what they do at the business end that warrants interrogation. By way of improvement however‚ they will seek it from the outset‚ starting with the Sharks at Ell...
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