Stormers focusing on dealing only in the currency of winning
The Western Cape team will not have the luxury of doing it in style when they face the fierce Jaguares this weekend
Cape Town — It should go without saying that winning rugby matches should be the only currency coaches and players deal in‚ but the Stormers are always under pressure to do it with style too. Winning ugly only works when there are trophies lining a team’s cabinet at the end of a campaign. Losing ugly is somehow seen as less palatable than losing with flair‚ even though both outcomes are the same. Stormers coach Robbie Fleck is well aware that in the Western Cape there is a craving for “style” even though an exact definition of the concept is fuzzy. Style could be a commanding lineout and rolling maul‚ or it could be a powerful drive from close range by a big prop‚ as much as it could be the romantic notion of “swinging it” wide. So Fleck is keeping it simple when his side take on the Jaguares in Cape Town on Friday — winning is all that matters — especially with a four-match Australasian tour to follow. He has picked a bludgeoning pack full of sledgehammers such as Eben Etzebeth‚ St...
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