Blitzboks coach Neil Powell has promised his side will reset their focus at the Singapore leg of the HSBC World Seven Series this weekend. The Blitzboks still lead the World Series by three points over Fiji with three rounds of the season to play. But after missing out on a medal at the Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast in Australia 10 days ago (which was not a World Series tournament), Powell believes he has identified how and why his side fell short at the four-yearly event. "We have closed the door on the Commonwealth Games and are fully focused on our first game in Singapore against Samoa, because it is going to be a tough one," Powell said. "I don’t want to become too focused on finishing above Fiji this weekend. The problem we identified after the Games was that we had become too results-focused and moved away from being process-driven. That put unnecessary pressure on the team," he said. "If we go into the Singapore tournament with the same mind-set of worrying about beating F...
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