Cape Town – JP Pietersen is right: the Super Rugby season has a long way to go, and there have been some oddball results in the early rounds ... enough to suggest that certain labouring big guns can still find a way back.
The experienced Springbok utility back was clearly trying to put the inevitable positive spin this week on the Sharks’ current predicament -- he was hardly going to say: “You know, we’re just not up to it; we’ve already given up the ghost.”
But he will also know all too well that such bullish talk will take on a particularly hollow tone if the Durban-based outfit, seemingly so competitive on paper, tumble to a horrendous one-from-five record if they lose again this weekend when the Cheetahs stand in their way in Bloemfontein (Saturday, 17:05).