By MARK CASHMAN & KAREN WATSON

Eastern Suburbs coach Pauli Taumoepeau has been careful not to bombard his players with too much “intel” as they prepare to take on the might of Sydney Uni in Round Six of the Shute Shield on Saturday.

“One of the keys is not to overload your team with what needs to be done,” Taumoepeau told Rugby News.

“You can get a bit overawed coming up against Uni and if you wanted to you could give your team 20 things that they need to worry about or execute.

“So I think one of the essentials about preparing to play a team like this is to just give the essentials about what needs to be done.