{"id":135733,"date":"2019-04-17T01:06:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T23:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/looking-to-refocus-featured-durban-blog\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T01:06:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T23:06:28","slug":"looking-to-refocus-featured-durban-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/looking-to-refocus-featured-durban-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking to Refocus \u2013 Featured Durban Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking to Refocus<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Springboks Coenie Oosthuizen and Tendai Mtawarira return to the starting line-up to play the Reds on Friday afternoon at JONSSON KINGS PARK.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a tough few days of introspection for the team following a disappointing showing against the Jaguares and the team has the opportunity to right the wrongs on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Springbok pair replace Juan Schoeman and Thomas du Toit, who move to the bench.\u00a0 The other change in the pack sees Jacques Vermeulen back from a well-earned break and he is in at flank for Luke Stringer.<\/p>\n

There are changes in the backline where Kobus van Wyk replaces Lukhanyo Am and forms a new midfield partnership with Andre Esterhuizen while Lwazi Mvovo moves across to the wing position vacated by Makazole Mapimpi with Sbu Nkosi returning to the side in the final change to the starting line-up.\u00a0 Both Am and Mapimpi have been rested for this match.<\/p>\n

Cell C Sharks assistant coach Braam van Straaten has been honest in his appraisal of last week\u2019s game, admitting that, \u201cThis is not how we want to play, not what we want to show our fans who come here to watch us perform to the best of our abilities and that\u2019s not how we can reward them for their support.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t pitch, mentally we weren\u2019t there and got beaten up at every opportunity,\u201d he added. \u201cWe didn\u2019t face up and that\u2019s the disappointing part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe senior players have taken ownership and come Friday, I think it will be a different story.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a short turnaround week for the team because of the Friday game and van Straaten admitted that it was important to get over the disappointment of the Jaguares game and focus on the Reds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to have to be really, really on top of our game. They\u2019re a good side, coached by an ex-All Black and they\u2019re a tough side to break down. We will be up for the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Cell C Sharks<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Beast Mtawarira<\/li>\n
  2. Kerron van Vuuren<\/li>\n
  3. Coenie Oosthuizen<\/li>\n
  4. Ruben van Heerden<\/li>\n
  5. Hyron Andrews<\/li>\n
  6. Philip van der Walt<\/li>\n
  7. Jacques Vermeulen<\/li>\n
  8. Daniel du Preez<\/li>\n
  9. Louis Schreuder (c)<\/li>\n
  10. Robert du Preez<\/li>\n
  11. Lwazi Mvovo<\/li>\n
  12. Andre Esterhuizen<\/li>\n
  13. Kobus van Wyk<\/li>\n
  14. Sbu Nkosi<\/li>\n
  15. Curwin Bosch<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Replacements<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Fez Mbatha<\/li>\n
    2. Juan Schoeman<\/li>\n
    3. Thomas du Toit<\/li>\n
    4. Tyler Paul<\/li>\n
    5. Jean-Luc du Preez<\/li>\n
    6. Cameron Wright<\/li>\n
    7. Marius Louw<\/li>\n
    8. Aphelele Fassi<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      Looking to Refocus: Springboks Coenie Oosthuizen and Tendai Mtawarira return to the starting line-up to play the Reds on Friday afternoon at JONSSON KINGS PARK. It\u2019s been a tough few days of introspection for the team following a disappointing showing against the Jaguares and the team has the opportunity to right the wrongs on Friday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[8275,3335,953],"class_list":{"0":"post-135733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-durban","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-mydurban-co-za","9":"tag-newspaper","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}