{"id":156591,"date":"2020-02-12T10:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T08:34:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-12T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T08:34:17","slug":"happy-team-happy-tour-featured-durban-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/happy-team-happy-tour-featured-durban-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Team, Happy Tour \u2013 Featured Durban Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Team, Happy Tour<\/a>: <\/p>\n

A four week overseas trip, away from home comforts and family and loved ones might be a tough ask for many, but for the Cell C Sharks, this is an opportunity to embrace touring rather than fearing it.<\/p>\n

This is probably why the Cell C Sharks are South Africa\u2019s most successful touring side and getting this year\u2019s four match tour off to a winning start is just the way they wanted to begin.<\/p>\n

Cell C Sharks captain Lukhanyo Am is revelling in his position as leader, admitting that it\u2019s not very difficult when the team is doing so well, having won their opening two games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe results make it easier, there might be a few questions if we weren\u2019t winning, but it\u2019s really a happy camp and I\u2019m enjoying working with the boys,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vibe amongst us is really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

The five try to three victory over the Highlanders last Friday was cause for much celebration, although he admits that the team is a perpetual work in progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a massive performance, I was really happy with how we performed as a group. Obviously, we can improve but it\u2019s still early days, just round two, but from our side we just want to try improve each week and hopefully we will be consistent.\u201d<\/p>\n

One area of concern was the penalty count, although Am felt that this is not something that presents deep concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a conversation we had this week, we feel that the tendency of conceding penalties is something we can control. These were penalties based on decision-making, not on our systems and we have spent time working on that this week. We can\u2019t afford that kind of penalty count in tighter games because that could cost us the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cell C Sharks opposition this weekend is the Hurricanes who have had an interesting start to the season. After losing to the Stormers when they were unable to score any points, they came back late in the following game against the Jaguares to score a fairly unlikely victory against a team that had smashed the Lions in round one and were looking to continue the form that saw them contest last year\u2019s Vodacom Super Rugby Final.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know the Hurricanes are a quality side, it\u2019s their first game at home this year and they will come out guns blazing,\u201d Am explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen what they can do, winning in Argentina is never easy and they bounced back from the first game when they went down to the Stormers in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a good team, well-balanced that likes to move the ball around and from our side, we just want to perform.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Happy Team, Happy Tour: A four week overseas trip, away from home comforts and family and loved ones might be a tough ask for many, but for the Cell C Sharks, this is an opportunity to embrace touring rather than fearing it. This is probably why the Cell C Sharks are South Africa\u2019s most successful […]<\/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":false,"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-156591","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\/156591","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=156591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}