Sharks have plenty to think about

Johannesburg - The Cell C Sharks go into their first bye week of the season and for them it probably won’t be a moment too soon.

According to the supersport.com website, Director of rugby Gary Gold must feel like he has been chasing his tail ever since he arrived in Durban from Japan just 10 days before the Vodacom Super Rugby season kicked off, and he was not helped by the bizarre spate of red cards that kept him busy defending players at disciplinary hearings when he should have been plotting the way forward.

Gold’s employers arguably don’t fully understand the concept of the director of rugby, for what Gold is expected to do in coaching the team is very different to what he did when he performed the role at English club Bath, or for that matter the role that Gert Smal is fulfilling at Western Province.