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Cape Town - Likely to field a team that will remain unavoidably vulnerable on paper, the Sharks teeter on the brink of becoming early also-rans in Super Rugby on Saturday.
Derby defeat at Kings Park (17:05 kick-off) to a Bulls side with stronger playoffs aspirations than theirs would consign them to six losses from 10 matches and leave them only the most forlorn of remaining hopes of cracking the six-team cut after ordinary season.
Bearing in mind that the Force (nine wins) and Hurricanes (eight) both failed to qualify last season, the embattled Durban outfit might under such circumstances face the ceaselessly pressured prospect of having to win all six remaining fixtures to be sure of making the grade even in one of the greatly less favourable finals series berths with the extra demands they impose.
