Sharks director of rugby Neil Powell says they will take a hard look at themselves after a humbling 46-19 home loss to the Stormers on Saturday.After an impressive 22-19 away win over Edinburgh the previous week, the Sharks were brought back down to earth by the Stormers, who ran in six tries for bonus-point win at Kings Park."We have to be better and learn from our mistakes," Powell told reporters after the match. "We knew the Stormers are the team that will punish you if you make mistakes and that's exactly what they did.
They just capitalised on our mistakes."Powell admitted that their preparation could have been better."In terms of our mental prep coming into this game, I don't know if we thought after the Edinburgh game that this would be easy, being at home.
We are obviously disappointed. As a coaching staff we will look at ourselves first and then ask questions of the team, what we could have done better to prepare for this game."It wasn't good enough.
We will take it on the chin. We have to learn from this. We cannot get in the situation again where we played so well and showed so much character and fight and in the next game there is none of that.