🏈The Sharks and Stormers have been dealt a heavy blow 💣 to their chances of winning their European Champions Cup quarter-finals 👎 even before the first whistle has blown 😢 RugbyNews SportNews TheCitizenSport Read more⬇️
Exeter Chiefs boss Rob Baxter also started the psychological battle earlier this week when he declared the Stormers winners of their match even before kick-off.
“I know many people will not give us a chance against them,” said Baxter to the Champions Cup website. “They dealt with Harlequins pretty easily and Harlequins dealt with us pretty easily two weeks ago, so that’s it … game over.” Then Baxter said: “But that is quite a nice place to start from for us. We are not going to physically change much this week.It is clear that both the home teams, Toulouse and Exeter Chiefs, are playing mind games before their matches. But, as Bulls boss Jake White said this week, it is now at this stage of the European competitions that “the men get separated from the boys.
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