Go play in Europe, they said. It is in a favourable time zone, they said. It will be easy to get there, they said.
Well, not really if you're a South African rugby team playing in European competition. Flights are fewer, airport upheaval is frequent and there is also the self-inflicted commercial imperative of detouring to the Arabian Gulf first as is the case in the United Rugby Championship.
It took the Sharks, who had to split into two groups and be rerouted through two different hubs, 24 hours to get to Toulouse, a city that is ironically at the forefront of the advancement of air travel. It means the Stormers will only have two field sessions before Saturday's clash but that isn't necessarily a bad thing, according to centre Ruhan Nel.
He said what a team may lose in time on the training field they potentially gain in tactical self-analysis.
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