Western Province coach John Dobson described his team’s performance in losing the Currie Cup final 17-12 to the Sharks as “the worst of the season” and a “car wreck”. WP were well beaten despite the tight score‚ thanks mainly to the Sharks’ inability to round off several gilt-edged chances But the Durban side did enough to capture their eighth title against a team that was unbeaten before the final “It was far and away our worst performance of the season and the Sharks thoroughly deserved to win the match‚” Dobson said “But we have to look at facts and take out the emotion. If you are going to lose eight lineouts‚ you are going to make something like 40 more tackles. “It’s very hard to defend turnovers. You are going backwards and they have the forward momentum. We never got any momentum and we never looked like scoring. “The only time we looked vaguely like scoring was when wing Sergeal [Petersen] chased a kick and it bounced the only way possible for him not to score. It was a car...
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