Play-off experience gives Lions an edge in Super Rugby knock-out stages
Their increasing familiarity with the pressure of play-off matches will only stand the Lions in good stead as they go into the knock-out stages of Super Rugby‚ says captain Warren Whiteley. The Lions play the Jaguares in a quarterfinal at Ellis Park on Saturday‚ and although their season produced more glitches than it did in the 2017 league stages, they get cut-throat in the knockout stages. "That experience is golden‚ having been in those situations‚" said Whiteley about the knock-out experience the Lions have built over the past two seasons. "Coach Swys [de Bruin] has also been in this situation, so we know how to do this‚ but we still have to do the job‚" the captain cautioned. For De Bruin the challenge remains the same. Irrespective of the occasion‚ for the Lions it is about best enforcing their gameplan on their opponents. "We won’t change what we’ve done the last four-and-a-half‚ five years. We’ll find a balance between running and kicking. We want to score tries‚" insisted D...
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