SA vs NZ S14 clashes

[Blue]

Sharks to get an almighty pasting. They look clueless.

35-6 just about right. :nta: Havent watched this one and dont intend to. They have a 10/12/13 problem and no easy fix for this.

They have a coaching problem and a 1 to 15 problem. Don't get me started. Smith had the third bad game in a row. Terblanche has no fucking clue whatsoever. Pienaar is not a 10. etc etc etc. Could write a book.

"Pienaar is the Ruin (sic) of Durban" The "Ruin", ha, ha! Looks like someone over on The Roar agrees with you, Blue. Check this: http://www.theroar.com.au/2010/02/27/pienaar-the-ruin-of-durban/#more-28320

Whover wrote that, one gas to agree. Pienaar looks like a player with the world on his shoulders.

But the coach is a bigger problem...

 

[PaarlBok]

The biggest disappointment over the weekend was the Tin Ears. This match vs the Highlanders was supposse to be the one they have to win to show they are not wooden spoon material. How the hell they gave the whistle to a qouta is juts beyond me. Swear he thinks its old rules for Thomson and new rules for Brussouw. Thomson did all the wrong things at rucktime and should have been binned before half time. Brussouw tackled his man, show his open arms and then drive over and still get penalised time after time. The Tin Ears losies the only players that played with guts but the rest played like schoolboys. Disappointing and now they will face the Hurricanes this weekend.

The Stormers is now in a make or break situation against the Highlanders this weekend. Schalkie & Blaauw will be back and I hope for a bit of backline reshuffle. Pie Eater had his big game against the Tahs and now will play kak for the next two years. When Dewaldt came on in the second half against the BumBoys he sure give more space to the backs, more front foot ball to the forwards with his service and have a much better kicking boot. I'd love to see Cronje getting the 10 jersey against the Highlanders and Grant shifted to 12. Cronje use the grubber or short kicing over the opponent backline much better then most and thats the way to play against the Highlanders. Up front we need Blaauw against the Highlanders impressive scrum. The Stormers need to get the ball out wide!

The Brutes have a bye this weekend and I will not survive another blackish Saffer S14 round!

 

[PaarlBok]

Havent watch the Lions vs Canes but the scoreline was better then I thought. Hope the Lions show improivement as the tournament goes on.

 

[Blue]

Havent watch the Lions vs Canes but the scoreline was better then I thought. Hope the Lions show improivement as the tournament goes on.

They seriously need to drop Spencer. He has done squat. Francis looks good and should be given a chance.

This is not good for SA rugby. Francis is a guy who has Bok potential and he is getting splinters in his butt.

 

[PaarlBok]

Tin Ears vs Canes
1 Wian du Preez
2 Adriaan Strauss
3 WP Nel
4 Nico Breedt
5 Walti Vermeulen
6 Heinrich Brussow
7 Juan Smith
8 Frans Viljoen
9 Sarel Pretorius
10 Naas Olivier
11 Jongi Nokwe
12 Meyer Bosman
13 Robert Ebersohn
14 Lionel Mapoe
15 Hennie Daniller
16 Ryno Barnes
17 Coenie Oosthuizen
18 David de Villiers
19 Kabamba Floors
20 Tewis de Bruyn
21 Riaan Viljoen
22 Danwel Demas

Captain - Juan Smith
Daniller in for Viljoen
Ebersohn to make debut at 13
Mapoe back to wing with Demas to the bench
Pretorius starts at 9 ahead of de Bruyn
Vermuelen starts at lock - De Villiers to the bench

Looks a bit better but they still leave a shite taste in my mouth after last week.

 

[PaarlBok]

Stormers – 15 Joe Pietersen, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Juan de Jongh, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Peter Grant, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Francois Louw, 6 Schalk Burger, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Anton van Zyl, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Tiaan Liebeneberg, 1 Wicus Blaauw.
Subs: 16 Deon Fourie, 17 JC Kritzinger, 18 De Kock Steenkamp, 19 Pieter Louw, 20 Ricky Januarie, 21 Lionel Cronje, 22 Sireli Naqelevuki.

Two Paarl Gimmies & one Upingtonner back. If the Stormers dont sort out Thomson & kie , I am joining Blue as a Brute supporter from next week!

 

[MajorlyRagerly]

The biggest disappointment over the weekend was the Tin Ears. This match vs the Highlanders was supposse to be the one they have to win to show they are not wooden spoon material. How the hell they gave the whistle to a qouta is juts beyond me. Swear he thinks its old rules for Thomson and new rules for Brussouw. Thomson did all the wrong things at rucktime and should have been binned before half time. Brussouw tackled his man, show his open arms and then drive over and still get penalised time after time. The Tin Ears losies the only players that played with guts but the rest played like schoolboys. Disappointing and now they will face the Hurricanes this weekend.

Thompson has always been a penalty magnet, so I'm not surprised that he infuriated you to watch.

By all accounts he played very well though and was instrumental in the victory. Perhaps some credit might be due instead of thinly veiled accusations of a biased ref?

 

[PaarlBok]

Boet ja, maybe credit for confusing a qouta ref, probably the Kiwi player I dislike the most and sure MR wont blame me for this. a Man that beat up his Mrs but allowing a Cockette tiny scrummy to allow to floor him with what we call a poesklap. Thats just beyond my imagination!

 

[PaarlBok]

Just saw we'll have some great rugby on Newlands on saturday. SA U20s vs Argentina at 13h00, WP Vodacom vs Sharks XV at 15h00 and then the big one at 17h00.

Taking the laaities with me and will have the osse early up, just hoping they will move fast in the current heat we have in this part of the world.

 

[PaarlBok]

Great bonus point win by the Stormers laid by the forwards and great scrumming vs a good scrum,

 

[PaarlBok]

and the Tin Ears show they can do it! Brutes stay at top and Stormers move to 3rd. Could not ask for more!

 

[MajorlyRagerly]

Good week, bad week for the kiwis... Clean sweep last week, then the only winner this week was by one playing another team!

Nice to see the tournament close up a bit. Bulls in the driving seat, although they haven't done their tour as yet.

 

[PaarlBok]

Ja last weekend I had the same feeling. Had my tickets for the match and had to give them away after my boy played Boland cricket trails. When we arrive at the venue only to find a bloody soaking pitch and Oom had to make a few phone calls to get another venue and their match only started afte 12 and finished just before the Newlands game. The performance of our youngsters like Blaauw, Energade bunny Fourie, Duvenhage. Piet Louw and Ebersohn made more then up for it.

 

[PaarlBok]

Righto , this weekend we'll have the Hurricanes on Newlands while the Bull Ring will feature the Highlander Clan.

After the Tin Ears match vs the Canes I have full confidense in the Stormers to roll over the Canes. The Stormers have the best defense in the competition (only leak 2 tries after 4 rounds) by far and the Canes a team full of flair but also one that can get easily frustrated . Also think with Blaauw back the Stormers scrumming is much better and our lineouts and breakdowns always a strength.

The Highlanders vs Brutes will be interesting. Pretty sure your measure stick in scrumming come from the Highlanders but the Brutes surely in another league compare to the other teams at the moment.

Tin Ears have a unwelcome bye this weekend.

 

[PaarlBok]

The difficult one to predict (hopefull I'll be there to watch this one) and double points on offer for both teams. This is a make or break one for the Stormers. If they win it, the road will get even tougher for the Canes having to go to the Bull Ring next week.

13 Mar 10
19:10
Newlands
Cape Town, South Africa

Wicus Blaauw 1 Jacob Ellison
Tiaan Liebenberg 2 Andrew Hore
Brok Harris 3 Neemia Tialata
Anton van Zyl 4 Bryn Evans
Andries Bekker 5 Michael Paterson
Schalk Burger 6 Victor Vito
Francois Louw 7 Scott Waldrom
Duane Vermeulen 8 Rodney So'oialo
Dewaldt Duvenhage 9 Piri Weepu
Peter Grant 10 Willie Ripia
Bryan Habana 11 David Smith
Juan de Jongh 12 Ma'a Nonu
Jaque Fourie 13 Conrad Smith
Sireli Naqelevuki 14 Tamati Ellison
Joe Pietersen 15 Cory Jane
Deon Fourie 16 Dane Coles
JC Kritzinger 17 John Schwalger
De Kock Steenkamp 18 Jeremy Thrush
Pieter Louw 19 Karl Lowe
Ricky Januarie 20 Tyson Keats
Lionel Cronje 21 Aaron Cruden
Gio Aplon 22 Alapati Leiua

Captain - Schalk Burger
Liebenberg back at hooker
Fourie reverts to the bench at the expense of Shimange
Captain - Andrew Hore
Tamati Ellison and Conrad Smith rushed straight into the side after joining the tour late due to injury
Ripia back at flyhalf with Cruden benched
Waldrom included on the flank ahead of Lowe
Schwalger axed in favour of Jacob Ellison


Harsh on Fourie going back to the bench but probably a very good impact player. I'll play him as a fecther flank from the bench.

 

[PaarlBok]

Da easy one, Brutes should put up a record score against the Clan without Thomson and that stupid flyhalf that saw trees after scoring a try.

13 Mar 10
17:05
Loftus Versfeld
Pretoria, South Africa

Gurthro Steenkamp 1 Jamie Mackintosh
Gary Botha 2 Jason MacDonald
Werner Kruger 3 Chris King
Danie Rossouw 4 Josh Bekhuis
Victor Matfield 5 Tom Donnelly
Derick Kuun 6 Tim Boys
Dewald Potgieter 7 Alando Soakai
Pierre Spies 8 Steven Setephano
Fourie du Preez 9 Sean Romans
Morne Steyn 10 Matthew Berquist
Francois Hougaard 11 Fetu'u Vainikolo
Wynand Olivier 12 Jason Shoemark
Stephan Dippenaar 13 Kendrick Lynn
Gerhard van den Heever 14 Ben Smith
Zane Kirchner 15 Israel Dagg
Bandise Maku 16 Jason Rutledge
Rossouw de Klerk 17 Bronson Murray
Flip van der Merwe 18 Hayden Triggs
Deon Stegmann 19 John Hardie
Jacques-Louis Potgieter 20 Scott Cowan
Jaco van der Westhuyzen 21 Robbie Robinson
Pedrie Wannenburg 22 James Paterson

Captain - Victor Matfield
Rossouw shifts from No 8 to lock in place of Van der Merwe
Potgieter replaces Wannenburg for first start of 2010
Spies returns at No 8
De Klerk on bench for first time in 2010
5-2 forwards-backs split bench
Captain - Jamie Mackintosh
Cowan out injured
Adam Thompson and Michael Hobbs left out after missing curfew
Berquist, Setephano brought in to cover the pair
Boys replaces Hardie on the flank
King in for Newland up front
MacDonald and Rutledge swap places

Dhould be a huge test for the Gimmie youngster Rossouw de Klerk if he have to play but I am sure he'll be itching for the challenge.

 

[PaarlBok]

Great win by the Stormers last night. Glad I made the effort to go to Newlands and must say the best crowd passion I sure found at Newlands in a very long time. When they start singing "Stormers jou lekker ding" you must know they play some awesome rugby. The Canes scrum was good but thats where it ended, everything else was just the home team, excellent defense and attacking play. Juan de Jongh & Dewaldt Duvenhage are look like Bok players at the moment and the best game I saw from Nakalivatiekakie. That hand off or should I say knock off of the highly rated Corry Jane was priceless to watch.

The Brutes put up another half a ton against the Highlanders but still their defense look a bit shaky. Pretty sure they'll patch this before this weekend because surely we dont want to give a 4 pointer to the Kiwis.

Looks pretty impressive to see two SA teams at the top and hope they'll keep it up!

 

[MajorlyRagerly]

Good start to the season for those SA teams, for sure.

how many games have SA teams won this year away from home?

 

[Blue]

Good start to the season for those SA teams, for sure.

how many games have SA teams won this year away from home?

None. Or haven't you been watching?

But I take your point.

Stormers traditionally have travelled the best of our teams but had a nightmare last year losing 5.

Bulls won 2 last year on tour and lost 3, all within 3 points. They have been getting better at travel.

Both play: Force, Blues, Chiefs, Reds

So they should both beat the Force, and get a few bonus points here and there at least. The other three games are all very, very difficult and impossible to call. The Reds are looking great, but one never knows who of those two Kiwi sides pitch up on the day.
I think one point in their favour is that they both start their tours sitting at the top of the log, They are usually not in that position and already under massive pressure when they hit the road. For that reason I think they have the chance of doing better.

 

[PaarlBok]

I am way more positive this year for the tour part of both teams fixtures. Two years back when they played the same opposition the Stormers lost only by a whisper against the Blues and the Brutes had a good one aswell. Thats the nice thing about this two, they play the same oppo week after week. They also starting with the Force making it a shorter tour this year.

Dont like to look futher then the next week tho and the Stormers have the Tin Ears and Brutes the Canes. I am not to worried for the Stormers (they had their hick up against the Bumbries and always thought they will either drop one match vs them or Canes) but since then they grew week by week as a team and on form. The Brutes are now right at the top and they can easily slip this weekend against the Canes. The Canes are a very unpredictable lot and the Brutes defense not convincing lately. Hope they fix this.

Looking at the tour matches, that Blues & Chiefs matches will be the difficult games for both teams.