'People said we must cancel Curwin's contract,' Sharks boss Coetzee on Bosch's struggles

Sharks CEO Eduard Coetzee has applauded the franchise's technical team for continuing to back flyhalf Curwin Bosch amid criticism and calls to “cancel” the player’s contract.

Bosch, 25, has experienced probably one of his toughest rugby seasons in the recently completed United Rugby Championship (URC) campaign where the star-studded Sharks bowed out in the final eight.

Some of the franchise’s struggles in the southern vs northern hemisphere tournament have been circled around Bosch’s form and unsatisfactory level of confidence that has also seen him drop further on the Springboks' radar.

Coetzee said though the cries to let Bosch go reached his office they didn’t bother to entertain them as they had a lot of belief in the pivot.

“I think we must give credit to the coaches, because a lot of people outside the Sharks wrote Curwin off,” Coetzee said.

“During the season there were a lot of cries to dump him, cancel his contract, but he [Curwin] is an unbelievable human being and he is incredibly talented.

“We know that he will come through and just like we stand by players that are injured, we stand by players that have lost form as well.”

Coetzee pointed out that Bosch has had a lot of off the field issues the player had to deal with and it had affected his game.

“Hopefully, soon that faith will be repaid, because there’s no questioning of Curwin’s talent and character,” Coetzee said during a LaLiga and Nielsen Sports event in Johannesburg.

“We are going into a new season, and we will have time, because he also had a lot of stuff going on in his personal life with some people passing away. I think let’s see how Curwin goes this season.”

Bosch is yet to add to his two Boks caps he registered in 2017.

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