Tondi targets Cheetahs comeback
8 Mar 2006
Tonderai Chavhanga narrowly missed selection for the Stormers’ clash with the Hurricanes on Saturday, but will be fit to face the Cheetahs next weekend.
Speaking to keo.co.za, the one-cap Bok confirmed that he could have played this weekend, but the strains of Vodacom Super 14 were deemed too risky so early in his recovery.
“I’m so close to being there, obviously I’m chomping at the bit and this is very frustrating,” Chavhanga said. “I was advised by the doc to sit out one more week to ensure that there’s not more setbacks, so in conjunction with the coaches I’ve made the call to wait one more week.”
Chavhanga confirmed he is targetting a return against the Cheetahs.
“I’d love to play against the Cheetahs, but obviously that is the coaches’ call. I will be available for selection though.”
Chavhanga has been out since the preliminary stages of the Currie Cup, and was forced to miss the Boks’ end-of-year-tour with a persistent quad injury that flared up again pre-season.
26 Comments
8 Mar 2006, 13:34 pm
Chavanga! go you dragon!
8 Mar 2006, 13:39 pm
Chavanga not fast enuff for Cheetahs!
he he, thats the headline i wanna see in a few weeks time.
8 Mar 2006, 13:40 pm
Hope he can play sooner rather than later he is dangerous player and not in the Gus Theor sense of the word. Good luck Tondi…
8 Mar 2006, 13:47 pm
Tonderai in, Greef out…
9. Bolla
10. Peter
11. Marius
12. Jean
13. De Wet
14. Ryno
15. Tonderai
8 Mar 2006, 13:54 pm
hehe. Poor old Gus
Hope they put him at fullback.
8 Mar 2006, 13:56 pm
Will be great to have him back!
8 Mar 2006, 14:01 pm
ekskrie,
kan Chavanga heelagter speel?. Dit lyk vir my of hy slegs oorweeg sal word as vleul.
8 Mar 2006, 14:06 pm
So at least now we get a player that can tackle a bit and is bleddie fast.
8 Mar 2006, 14:10 pm
Gus for pressie. Anything to get you off a rugby field!
8 Mar 2006, 14:18 pm
I hope he’s going to make a difference to the team. Damn we need some rugby players
8 Mar 2006, 15:08 pm
From thestormers.co.za:
Gus Theron – Please read this – you are a disgrace to the game called rugby. F-off peacefully from Newlands or face the music. A tackle is spreading your arms around an opposition players legs/waist so that he falls to the ground. Use it don’t lose it. – Posted By – [WP OU] – 8 March, 2006 13:41
8 Mar 2006, 15:48 pm
L-Lee,
Gus does tackle – the problem he has got is catching the ball – think you guys need to watch the games a bit beter and not from the bottom of glass that hold the ‘Klippies and Cokes’. Please don’t get me wrong not a fan of Gus but he does have some strong pionts and a few other weak pionts. I think you need to list all the players positions put down what player skills are needed and then rate the players in the positions against your list and you may be surprised at the outcome – some ‘afrimate players’ will rate much better than people give them credit for and some wonder player like ‘Schalk Burger’ will be rated down. You need to be more objective when just slagging players off.
I waslucky as in my playing days played in both back line and forwards and have a better knowledge of some positions which has been a good thing for me to look at players and how to rate them. One player that always got a good score from me was Pieter Rossouw – many for his ‘off the ball play’. The support and covering this player did was about 2-3 times more than any other player. So look at players stong pionts and weak pionts before just slagging them off.
8 Mar 2006, 15:54 pm
all stormers, strong points and Gus in the same sentence is like using the word intelligent and bulls supporters in the same sentence…They just dont go together.
8 Mar 2006, 16:02 pm
wpw
I agree to a piont (as not a Gus fan), but folks are now just slagging him off when if fact he is not that bad – think in last two games has only ‘dropped’ the ball twice. made two mis-tackles and gave away one pen for pull a player back (which cost us 3 pionts). That rate of erro is not bad as some other players have done worse but because it is known he drops the ball on a regular basis he is getting all the flack when in fact it should be some of the ‘wonder boys’. If they up’d there game there would be a difference as this is a team game and currently they are not playing as a team but one player making a dart not and then. Maybe Bolla should go an kiss player when they make mistakes!!
8 Mar 2006, 16:23 pm
all stormers….
have you been to newlands when gus was in the team? He is ****, finished and klaar…
How can WP keep a player who cant catch the ball? I watched the game closely and i can tell you that he was running around like a headless chicken too. he is not even CC material…
Even in the Warm up games for the Strmrs, he continously drops the freakin ball, i’ve even seen him drop it with just the tryline in front of him… And the sad thing is, not on only a few occasions but many…
8 Mar 2006, 16:41 pm
wpw
Yes I used to go to Newlands all the time (had Season tickets) and only this year move to the UK. Yes he is is not the best player and really think that a another player should be given a chance – however he can tackle which is more than likely the reason he gets the nod over some other players. However if your teams has the ball this is not a big factor and can play someone who is good with ball in hand.
If you look at last game both Adri and Ryno dropped the ball with open line too – but they not getting half the flak Gus is. We all know he is never going to be a top class player as he has a ‘few’ things he needs to work on more than otehr players – but think he is also over the hill to make it big so it may be better for another player to be given a chance. The problem is they don’t have anyone else as they were not expecting all the centre’s to be out at the same time. So again this is a mangement problem not a player problem as he is playing the best he ever will be which we all know is not brilliant.
8 Mar 2006, 17:06 pm
all_stormers
At least a stormer with some perspective. Some idiots here just jumps on the ‘Gus is K@k’ bandwagon, while he is most probably not the worst player in that team by far. Specially the way they are playing at this stage.
Similarly if a player does one good thing like a 50/50 chip and chase and get the lucky bounce of the ball then he is the next best thing.
Like you said you got to look at the overall performance in relation to the rest of the team.
8 Mar 2006, 17:10 pm
I support all_stormer opinion
You go to war with what you’ve got, the Stormers conceded too many soft tries this season and they need few committed hard men at the back
Please name someone other than Gus and DwB
8 Mar 2006, 17:22 pm
Thanks guys – I am very dissapiont with the Stormers so far but still remain a fan and maybe I am more critical at looking at the team performance rather than just one person – as one per does not make a team. For this reason I don’t think that JdV will suddenly turn the performance around – he will help but each team memeber needs to up their game before they will start to do well – they don’t even look like they want to play out there so it’s no surprise that it’s the new boys (Ross Seakte and Schalk Britz) that are giving good performence in relation to the rest of the team.
9 Mar 2006, 00:54 am
Just been looking at the stats on the Stormers game played against Brumbies on sarugby.com and it shows Gus made more tackles than other backline players in this game(they got him down as a wing and Rayno as full back but just do compare of all players for that game). It does not however show how many balls were not caught. Which confirms why he is in the team so before shouting “GUS is K@K” get the facts!!
I am not sure how all the sites get there stats and they all seem to be done differently so I only use these as a guideline. The NZ site tend to favour their players and likewise the SA sites the SA players. But like I said in an earlier post make a ‘checklist’ for yourself as to what makes a good player in that position – and then rate the players as per your checklist. You will be shocked at some results.
Also look at Schalk Burgers stats for this game and Schalk Britz – the hooker made far more tackles – this is shocking. I have never been a Burger fan and the more stats I see confirms he is just overrated – a good player but overrated.
9 Mar 2006, 06:40 am
Can Chavanga play prop or lock?
If not, he will make no difference.
9 Mar 2006, 06:56 am
he probably can, but i think he’ll suck at it.
9 Mar 2006, 08:47 am
Yes!!!!! This is fantastic, can’t wait to see him play! He’s got a trip to Eden Park to look forward to…….
9 Mar 2006, 08:51 am
all-stormers,
Man jy praat nou wragtie nie nonsens nie!!! Ek is nou nie ‘n stormer supp nie maar ek kan ook seker my mening lig – of nie?
ek het nog altyd gedink Gus is nie so useless soos almal praat nie – hy het tekortkominge soos alle spelers.
dit is onnodig om die huidige spel van die stormers met massa histerie te gespreek. As ek reg onthou het die redder van die Kaap (NM) genoem dat dit 3 jaar gaan neem om te kom waar hy wil he die stormers/Wp moet wees – so gee die spelers dan tyd.
Ek het hierdie jaar die stormers net vir 20min op die kassie gesien en dit gaan nie lank vat nie dan is hulle terug. (Miskien het ek net die beste 20min gesien)
As daar regtig krities gekyk moet word na spelers dan is S Burger voor in die ry. Hy is nie op sy beste nie en sy impak op ‘n game is minimaal (my mening nadat on al die S12 games, CCup games en toetse van 2005 gekyk het). Jy sien daai wit kop orals maar hy beteken nie veel nie. Hy sal moet uitrus/herstel voor die TNations.
Diesefde geld vir De Wet as kaptein. Ek voel as kaptein moet hy “beheer en gesag” uitoefen op die veld. Doen hy dit – ek is nie seker nie. Kan hy tackle?? Ja, maar die probleem is die ander span het die bal.
JdV kan ook net die besit wat hy kry, gebruik en soos in 2005 weet ons dat hy nou ‘n gemerkte man is. Hy kan nie meer alles op sy eie doen nie. Ek en ‘n vriend van my (hy het 6 jaar vir die bokke gespeel) stry altyd oor sekere spelers en JdV is een van hulle. JdV kan die spelers om hom in goeie pos plaas maar huidiglik speel hy crashball rugby??? So afgerig of gameplan???
Dus is ek van mening dat as die besit van Wp/Stormers “skoner” is, vinniger is, en Bolla hardloop nie 3 tree met die bal voor hy paas nie, dan is daar spasie vir JdV en kie. Anders gaat JDv net crashball rugby moet speel want die verdediging gaan opgesit wees.
9 Mar 2006, 11:15 am
Staal,
Die span speel nie te sleg – en ek dink dat all die NZ/OZ spanne weet dit ook. Anton Olivier was reg as ek dink hy was net bly dat sy span het gewen. Die Stormers het ok a per jaar geleid so gesply maar hulle het die Blues onder in NZ a groot pakslae (die wedstraad dat Hendrick vir ‘The King’ Carlos met die kop gestamp). Almal get gedink hulle so die wedstryd verloor. Die manne in die span het meer ‘talent and skill’ maar die gameplan is wat hulle soek.
1 May 2006, 17:55 pm
stop hating people, Tonderai is the best and everyone knows it. nothing is more sexier that a humble, inteligetnt, handsome, rugby player. all the rest are simply stuk-up and big headed. stay strong Tondi…
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