Gavin Rich reviews the Currie Cup season to date prior to next weekend's semi-finals on Supersport.
"When the dust had finally settled on an absorbing Absa Currie Cup league season, two things were clear -- the top four teams had made the semifinals, and there is not much separating those teams.
"The log table sums it up. Although the Sharks were always quite comfortably ahead in their race to grab top spot after their win over Western Province in Durban at the end of the first round, it was the bonus points accumulated along the way, rather than the number of wins, that made it thus.
"In the end the Sharks ended up with the same number of wins (10) as the second-placed WP and third-placed Free State Cheetahs, with the fourth-placed Bulls having won just one game less. Those four teams were significantly better than the next placed team, the Lions, who by losing to the Pumas in their last match saw their season peter out into a disappointing synopsis which read won seven and lost seven."
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