Author: PaarlBok

The Stormers had a disappointing 2014 and will want to respond with a vengeance. They topped the pool stages in 2012 but slumped to seventh in 2013 and eleventh last year. They have never won the competition and when they got past the pool stages five times they lost four semis and one final. No wonder they have the reputation of being the chokers. The have played negative defensive rugby recently but the Newlands’ faithful wouldn’t mind so much if they were winning. The crowds have dropped because the fans are frustrated: they can’t work out why their Super Rugby…

PaarlBok is a regular South African contributor in the G&GR forum Doc Craven use to quote that you should never  just check the scoreboard. Much better to concentrate on the things you did wrong and try and fix that. We are talking about rugby here and I think we should do what is important for rugby first and foremost to try and fix this. The fact is that the three southern nations need each other and all three contributed over the years to help each other stay at the top. So we don’t need to ‘fix this’, but we need…