Waratahs v Stormers, rd 13 Super Rugby 2013

[Braveheart81]

Good team, Waratahs by 35 now.

What have you been smoking on the brai boet?

This game will be close. Like every Stormers game.

 

[Richo]

What have you been smoking on the brai boet?

This game will be close. Like every Stormers game.

I suspect he's going for the reverse jinx. 67% of the time, it works all the time.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

The usual Paarl reverse jinx is 50 points. When he is going for a 35 point loss, it is really Paarl speak for a 15 point victory to the Stormers.

 

[Rassie]

The team who can score tries and can't defend against the team who can defend and struggle to score tries.

Should be a penalty fest

 

[topo]

There's an extra reserve there. I expect Skelton will miss out. Or maybe someone like Chapman has a niggle. Alternatively Cheika likes what he sees with Skelton and wants him to get used to the match day experience by making him 23rd man. He would do everything the team does except play.

 

[rugbysmartarse]

interesting article in the SMH from Paul Cully about the stormers (in particular) use of the maul as an attacking weapon, and the refereeing vagaries around how to stop it.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...-stop-mauling-by-stormers-20130509-2jas5.html

The tahs defense of the maul has been OK at times, and shocking at others (brumbies springs to mind) - I hope we can keep their lineout outside our 22

 

[Rassie]

^think this hits the nail right on the head

If you want to play rugby against this lot you've got to get your hands dirty first.

 

[qwerty51]

So many of us Tahs fans were saying before the Chiefs game how they should cross field kick to Folau more, they did it and Folau scored. Haven't seen it done since.. Saturday would be the perfect time to try it again, Stormers defence will be tough to crack and Aplon is tiny.

 

[JSRF10]

Doesn't even need to Folau they cross kick to on Aplons wing, any of the Tahs back 3 tower over him!

 

[Rassie]

Doesn't even need to Folau they cross kick to on Aplons wing, any of the Tahs back 3 tower over him!

Habana and De Villiers would love that

 

[qwerty51]

I don't get it?

 

[Rassie]

Dude we play kick and chase rugby for almost a century. Kicking it will be the same as trying to out maul a South African team

 

[qwerty51]

But Habana and JdV would no where near Aplon, Folau would dominate Aplon in the air.

 

[Rassie]

But Habana and JdV would no where near Aplon, Folau would dominate Aplon in the air.

Stormer wings swap around a lot

 

[WorkingClassRugger]

Stormer wings swap around a lot

I suggest you look up a bit of Folau's RL footgage to see his ability in the air. Both Habana and JDV will need to be inch perfect on every occasion if the cross field kick is applied. Also, both Crawford and Betham are reasonably tall. Which means it may not matter which wing Aplon is on.

It's a tactic I think we should have employed more during the 2003 RWC final. Chase Robinson around the park for the likes of Latham and Tuqiri going up after it.

 

[JSRF10]

Stormer wings swap around a lot

Foley with his 7s background alone should have enough rugby nous to see who is which wing. If Aplon is relatively isolated and we have a back 3 player over there we should be trying this, even if it doesn't work it will hopefully put some doubt in the minds of the Stormers inside defense giving Foley and extra second or two on the ball.

 

[qwerty51]

3:50 probably his most famous one. If Foley gets the kick right, there's no way anyone can defend that. Especially in rugby with our laws (can't hit the ball away).

 

[Braveheart81]

If Foley gets the kick right, Folau could be competing with Andries Bekker and win.

 

[PaarlBok]

Ysterbeth must keep his cool, he is a marked man.

 

[qwerty51]

Does anyone have any insight as to why AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) would be wearing a NO CONTACT bib at training this week?

NSW Waratahs and Wallabies ironman Adam Ashley-Cooper is staking his claim as world rugby's most durable player.
Ashley-Cooper already has the distinction of being the only player at the 2011 Rugby World Cup to have played all 560 minutes - or more than nine hours without a single second's rest - and now he's showing similarly remarkable staying power at the Waratahs.
The indestructible backline ace is the only player to have started in 26 straight Super Rugby games for NSW since joining the Waratahs from the Brumbies at the start of last season.
A stalwart of 77 Tests and 104 Super matches, the only game Ashley-Cooper can recall missing in the past five seasons was Australia's 25-19 win over Argentina in Rosario last year.
"Because I got knocked out in South Africa and wasn't allowed to travel to Argentina," he said on Friday.
"Before that, it was 2008."