Cheetahs committee sets big plans

serious preparations for the global showcase.
And it is for this reason that 15 players will be bought out of their respective clubs and camp in Harare for the six months leading up to the 2013 Russia Sevens World Cup with all their requirements catered for during this period.
Old horses, who include the likes of Wes Mbanje, Tangai Nemadire, Fortune Chipendu, Jacques Leitao, Mike Morris, Jonathan McWade will constitute the bulk of the players that are set to get contracts from the Sevens committee.
The set-up will not only be made up of the senior players as manager Bruce Hobson yesterday told The Herald that they are also looking at developing a team for the future and will include young and promising players.
The technical team have their eyes on players like Biselele Tshamala, Farai Jijita, Tapiwa Tsomondo, Takudzwa Chieza, Garath Meikle who have all recently graduated from the Young Sables squads that took part at the Junior World Ruby Trophy over the past two years.
“We are trying to have more of a professional set-up where we are going to have about 15 players staying in Harare and have all their expenses covered by the Sevens committee so that all they concentrate on is training.
“It’s an open secret that every team we are going to play at the World Cup is made up of professionals and they have professional set-ups in their countries so that is what we are trying to emulate.
“We have to be as professional as possible, have the players in professional conditions as they will be training about three times a day because we believe this would better our performance at the competition,” said the former Zimbabwe Rugby Union president.
Zimbabwe will start their World Series campaign by travelling to Dubai at the end of November before connecting to Port Elizabeth in South Africa to round up this year’s games.