Am confident Sharks will rebound

Sharks captain Lukhanyo Am is confident the team can climb up the United Rugby Championship points table should they pull together a string of good results.

The woes of the Durban franchise in the URC have been well documented. The performances have not been good on the field, they have lost eight out of their nine games and that has seen them are rooted to the bottom of the table.

The second half of the URC feel like a clean slate for the Sharks, as they get a fresh start without any expectations and many who have written them off.

Of the nine remaining games they have in the regular season, the Sharks will play six of them in their own back yard, Durban’s Kings Park.

The first of those home games will be tomorrow when they take on the Stormers.

A Stormers scalp will go a long way towards helping to revive the Sharks’ URC campaign and ignite their mission of moving up the table.

“The position that we are in is not the ideal position we would have loved to be in,” Am said this week.

“But the intention won’t change, we still go out there to do our best. We continuously work on our game to improve. I think it’s definitely showing,

“I think there are parts of our game that has really improved and we are becoming strong at.

“I think for the rest of the games that are left, the mindset is to try and get the win for each game, pick up the points and climb up that ladder.”

Sharks mentor John Plumtree knows his team can put in a solid shift on their day as they have good players in their ranks. The veteran coach just wants his team to be consistent for 80 minutes.

“The first-half against the Lions was probably the best rugby we have played all year and the second-half was the worst. So, in terms of how we perform, we just haven’t found that real consistency that we need,” said Plumtree.

“That’s the Achilles heel of our team at the moment.”