Sharks' resurgent work ethic suggests dark days are done

If you were a Sharks supporter with strangely masochistic tendencies, you might have opted to cut out and keep the United Rugby Championship table when they were in the dank basement, and showing one win from 11 earlier this season.

That was an extraordinary nadir for a side fuelled by still relatively new (2021), much-publicised private equity backers and very liberally - a trend not about to end - dotted with frontline Springboks on their books.

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