Richards Bay coach Vusumuzi Vilakazi has issued a serious message to his players after they avoided automatic relegation.
The Natal Rich Boys boosted their survival hopes with a famous 1-0 victory over Orlando Pirates at Orlando Stadium.
Richards Bay are now three points behind 14th-placed Royal AM with two games left in the season and Vilakazi wants his side to keep fighting in the end.
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"We were bound and forced to improve, we wanted to save the team," the coach told SuperSport after the game.
"We want to save the status so we have to dig deep and try our best.
"Obviously, we never started pre-season together but at least now the performance there and the players know how to respond and what we need as the coaching or technical staff."
Vilakazi was happy with how the side defended against a free-scoring side on Saturday evening.
"I did mention in the beginning that a proper set-up today in terms of our defensive structure will do for us because we know their strong points and weaknesses even though we didn't capitalise that much on their weaknesses in terms of exploiting the spaces in that particular time but we knew that their full-backs have got the appetite of going forward.
"So, the recovery if we regain and exploit those spaces but the recovery if we exploit those spaces but it's not something that we did the whole of the 90 minutes but I was happy with the defensive structure because we were trying to frustrate Orlando Pirates from penetrating especially in the midfield," he added.
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