Rose to blossom against Stormers
6 Feb 2006
Former Western Province utility back Earl Rose is set for a Vodacom Super 14 debut against his 2005 colleagues.
Andre Bester, a man in the know at the Cats, writes that Rose trained at fullback and will be given the responsibility when coach Frans Ludeke confirms his run on XV. Regular fullback Conrad Jantjes is injured and unavailable.
While Rose is set to launch his Super 14 career, former Cats hooker Schalk Brits will have to wait a bit longer to take on his former teammates. Brits is likely to miss out to Springbok hooker Hanyani Shimange for a starting role.
Stormers captain De Wet Barry may still play, but the Stormers will be without Joe van Niekerk and Marius Joubert in the first few rounds.
The Cats injured star Ashwin Willemse has survived pre-season matches and will play on the wing in a backline dominated by Western Cape players. Rose, Willemse, Wayne Julies and Ricky Januarie all played for Western Province and Boland respectively.
Ludeke is set to name a Cats match 22 that includes four Springboks among the subs in DeLarey du Preez, Lawrence Sephaka, Grant Esterhuizen and Jorrie Muller.
Cats (probable team): Earl Rose; Ashwin Willemse, Jaque Fourie, Wayne Julies, Wylie Human; Tiaan Snyman, Enrico Januarie; Ernst Joubert, Wikus van Heerden ©, Baywatch Grobbelaar, Jannes Labuschagne, Trevor Hall, Marius Hurter, Lukas van Biljon, Pietman van Niekerk. Reserves: Delarey du Preez, Lawrence Sephaka, KleinJan Tromp, Willem Stoltz, Jano Vermaak, Grant Esterhuizen, Jorrie Muller.
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7 Feb 2006, 11:43 am
from the top of my head 8 regular springboks will mist the opening rounds of the CC – i am not too sure but would love to know if NZ suffer from this as well – they had a grand slam tour remember – not the easy ride we had.
7 Feb 2006, 11:43 am
mist = miss
7 Feb 2006, 11:47 am
Ha. The Spears are a disaster waiting to happen.
Let’s say the Cats are relegated and Jake White, under pressure from the SARU clowns, allocates 8 Boks to the Spears “for the good of SA rugby�. These Boks could not even save their current team from relegation, despite playing with team-mates of much greater quality than the club-level players they will be forced to join down in the Eastern Cape. And they will have absolutely zero loyalty to their new franchise, having been “seconded� there for the “national good� (much like being sent to a Soviet Gulag to grow food for the rest of the nation whether you like it or not.) I can just see the team-spirit that will exist amongst the “Rabble in Red�.
If I was Jacque Fourie, should the Cats be relegated, I’d much rather sign a contract with a professional setup like the Bulls, just across the Jukskei, than be sentenced to join a lost cause down in PE.
The sooner the Spears debacle is put to rest, the better for us all. It is going to be embarrassing. Let them draw from their feeder unions, and let them stick to the Currie Cup for now. Once they actually make it into the Currie Cup semi-finals, which may happen just before George W puts another man on the moon in 2020, then we can start talking about Super 14 participation. But until then, do we really need yet another opportunity to look like idiots to the rest of the world? I don’t think so…
7 Feb 2006, 11:48 am
PissAnt
Something tells me that the figure I had has to do with the Feeder system put in place for the spears. In other words any new up and comming players from u21 etc have to fed to the E Cape first. Not to sure how it works but thats the theory.
The idea was to strengthen the E Cape for the future sothat they could compete with the biger unions. Problem is they cant afford the price of these players. Could you imagine a guy like Habanna coming out of u21 and being forced to play for the Spears. feel kinda sorry for them.
The other sid of that is that at least they will get game time instead of being benched at one of the bigger unions.
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7 Feb 2006, 11:53 am
How k@K would it be for the relegated team if all five of our teams made it into the top 7 or 8. Poor B@$terds!!
7 Feb 2006, 12:03 pm
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7 Feb 2006, 12:04 pm
Rickie’s back!!!!
Bye bye Stormers!
The defensive pressure on Grant and whoever dons 9 will be too much.
History!
7 Feb 2006, 12:05 pm
Chuck Norris rents videos and never rewinds them, ever.
When Chuck Norris was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables.
Every mathematical inequality officially ends with “
7 Feb 2006, 12:09 pm
badbok,
i think that because these ‘boks’ has SARU contracts, the unions/franchises wont need to pay a cent – but i cannot confirm that.
i also get the impression that from what i read, the coach, Jake White, can push these ‘boks’ into any union/franchise which makes much more sense.
lets say the stormers get relegated, it would be far better to let schalla play for the cheetahs than the spears, since he will be playing with juan smith who is in the loose forward combination setup for the boks.
i do see this as a positive as long as SARU does not stuff this one up again – what good will it do for a john smit, to play vodacom cup in the WC year, when he can join the cheetahs where most of his bok front row partners are and let him play 4 or 5 games there?
tacitus,
unfortunately it is not up to jacques at all. he has a contract with the kieties and SARU, if they decide he should go play somewhere if the cats get relegated, he has no choice.
the interesting thing would be how the home unions/franchises (if relegated) gets compensated.
it is a workable scenario, but it has to managed correctly to be effective, soemthing i doubt SARU is capable of.
badbok,
it is a lot to ask in my view to have kids (u/21 players) go up against the big guns of international rugby. plans need to be put in place for any franchise to be successful. it is all good and well (and true) to say the spears cannot afford players yet….but if this thing does get approved you can be sure sponsors will jump at the opportunity to get exposure next year.
7 Feb 2006, 12:43 pm
The above team is a kick *** looking sqaud. Shame they don’t have a good flyhalf.
SARU needs to inforce player sharing. If a team has 3 specialist flyhalfs, then one them has to go to the team that has none. The Cheetahs have Waal and Bosman. One of them should go to the Cats until Pretoors is back. I think at this level it is dangerous to have a second rate flyhalf in the team/s.
7 Feb 2006, 13:03 pm
I just checked out the profiles on the cats website. Jorrie Muller is 99kg’s. Is this chap playing better?
7 Feb 2006, 13:04 pm
Cuboczaconia,
If Baywatch wears a speedo he’ll have the stormers all over his ***, man.
7 Feb 2006, 14:42 pm
PA
You seem to have alot of faith in SARFU’s management, but , you also believe that the Stormers will be sucsesfull in S14, positive thinking really works.
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