{"id":88950,"date":"2017-03-09T18:34:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/uj-rugby-coach-keeps-feet-on-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T18:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:34:54","slug":"uj-rugby-coach-keeps-feet-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/uj-rugby-coach-keeps-feet-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"UJ rugby coach keeps feet on the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

UJ rugby coach keeps feet on the ground<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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University of Johannesburg wing Aphiwe Dyanti showed good form to be named the Player That Rocks in their Varsity Cup rugby match against NMMU-Madibaz this week. Photo: Saspa<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

University of Johannesburg rugby coach Werner Janse van Rensburg is not getting carried away by his team’s results despite an impressive turnaround in the Varsity Cup.<\/p>\n

After losing the first two matches, UJ have put themselves back into contention for the play-offs with three wins on the trot.<\/p>\n

Their most recent result saw them hold off a strong challenge from NMMU-Madibaz, with wing Aphiwe Dyanti earning the Player That Rocks award.<\/p>\n

They will be aiming to continue that form against UCT in Cape Town on Monday, but Janse van Rensburg said they knew there were no guarantees.<\/p>\n

“It’s very simple to keep our feet on the ground because the history of this competition has shown that any team can win on any given Monday,” the UJ mentor said.<\/p>\n

“So our wins in the last three weeks will mean nothing to UCT in their preparations as they will believe that they can win.<\/p>\n

“As it is an away game nothing but our best will be good enough to get us over the line. Ikeys have ample fighting spirit and Monday will be no different.”<\/p>\n

Janse van Rensburg added they would not be looking too far ahead in the competition.<\/p>\n

“For instance, our focus now is just to be as good as we can in our next training session in preparation for the match.”<\/p>\n

He said the victories they had achieved after their slow start had instilled a sense of self-belief in the squad.<\/p>\n

“We have been growing as a team and had some luck, but ultimately we have executed our skills more accurately and been more consistent.<\/p>\n

“The momentum we have gained has helped because confidence in the system is slowly spreading to everyone in the team.”<\/p>\n

The UJ coach said he had adopted a sense of realism in his coaching philosophy, understanding that you could not win all the time.<\/p>\n

“The first reality is that you will lose at some stage,” he said. “It has not been a case of doubting, but rather understanding where we are as a new team and trying to learn from our mistakes.<\/p>\n

“The quicker this happened the quicker we knew it would translate into some good results.”<\/p>\n

Janse van Rensburg pinpointed their teamwork as the underlying principle behind their success.<\/p>\n

“But, in addition, loose forwards Driaan Bester and Len Massyn have really stepped up well with the ball in hand as well as in defence.<\/p>\n

“Captain and hooker Jannes Snyman has contributed in the physical exchanges and the backs have shown some good progression on attack.”<\/p>\n

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UJ rugby coach keeps feet on the ground: University of Johannesburg wing Aphiwe Dyanti showed good form to be named the Player That Rocks in their Varsity Cup rugby match against NMMU-Madibaz this week. Photo: Saspa University of Johannesburg rugby coach Werner Janse van Rensburg is not getting carried away by his team’s results despite […]<\/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":[3332],"tags":[3513,8348,3822,6780,8293],"class_list":{"0":"post-88950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-coach","8":"tag-feet","9":"tag-ground","10":"tag-keeps","11":"tag-rugby","12":"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\/88950","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=88950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}