Sharks director of rugby Gary Gold had every reason to be pleased by the team's hard-fought 26-10 win over the Cheetahs on Saturday evening.The captain and flyhalf has not played any rugby since the Springboks' first Test against Ireland on June 11, when his poleaxing by Ireland flank CJ Stander left him concussed.Garth April ably filled the void on Saturday with an assured performance that saw him garner 16 points from two conversions and four penalties."I hope Pat will be available but he needs to do some exercise before he can play," said Gold."If he can wake up symptom-free on Monday morning, we can get him on a bike and he could be okay."It's not right to throw him into the deep end."A perfect scenario for me would be if he were to be picked to be on the bench."The morale-boosting win without the three-try bonus point saw the Sharks maintain a two-point gap over the Bulls.It means the Sharks just need to beat the Sunwolves on Friday to reduce the Bulls' participation in the tournament to an academic exercise.The relief was palpable on Gold's face when the Sharks navigated their bogey side - the past three years have seen the Cheetahs turn the Sharks over when they least expect it - with a nervy performance."Knowing that this game is often a banana peel, if we had slipped up everything that we've done in the past 13 weeks would have been nullified."You know that the fan would have been pretty dirty because of the late season implosion, so this win was hugely significant."We needed to bounce back from last week and make sure our fate is in our own hands," he said."It wasn't a performance where we felt we'd achieved anything and there's some hard work that needs to be done."We need to have a good performance against the Sunwolves and we need to be clinical."It's going to give us the confidence if we do well next week," Gold said...