Waratahs want win for coach
After suffering two close losses the NSW Waratahs are coming to Lautoka with a mission to win.
The win over the Swire Shipping Fijian Drua, this Saturday is critical, if Darren Coleman is to continue as the Waratahs head coach. The Sydney-based side had lost 1210 to Blues and 22-23 to Highlanders.
Questions have been raised about the future of Coleman.
According to Sydney Morning Herald, during Saturday night’s postmatch press conference Waratahs captain Jake Gordon was asked about the future of the coach and Coleman stepped in to
Coleman said.
“My future isn’t any of his business, like the board has been really supportive. “They’re doing what’s right and we’re just going to get on with this season.
“I don’t need players to talk about my future or even be worried about it, we’re just so focused on turning those two-point losses into wins.” He said the Waratahs have undoubtedly improved on the field, but the cold hard results would say they’ve had four games and one win.
They travel to Fiji this week to take on one of the toughest tasks in club rugby anywhere, beating the Drua at home in front of a loud capacity crowd.
Gordon said it would be a team effort to build the Waratahs back up for another huge challenge this week.
“We’ve got some fixes that we need to work on, we can’t brush over us not being able to nail some of those really important parts of the game,” Gordon said.
“We’ve got a group that’s really tight, we fight hard. Like if we focus on improving each week, we’re going to be a tough team to beat. “I said it earlier, we are such a different team to what we were last year, we were getting pumped at points, not even in games. I think we just need to be a little bit sharper.”
Gordon said they have to keep improving.
“We spoke about going back to Tah tough and I think we made massive improvements on that. “We are expecting the more we play the sharper we get. They really put us under pressure, constantly playing on the front foot. It’s hard we’ve had two really close losses, but we’re getting closer to where we want to be.”
The match kicks-off at 1.05pm.