Conrad keen to mix it with Monty
31 Mar 2009
Their success as a Test combination suggests Percy Montgomery and Conrad Jantjes would thrive in a starting Stormers team.
Following Saturday’s defeat to the Crusaders, there have been conflicting reports concerning team selection. One sector claims Rassie Erasmus will retain the majority of his starting side, while another inferred that Wylie Human’s call-up meant the Western Province Vodacom Cup player would be fast-tracked to the run-on team.
All will be revealed on Wednesday when Erasmus names the match 22 tasked with toppling the Waratahs. It wouldn’t make sense for Erasmus to start Human, a player whose involvement with the Stormers has been non-existent in 2009. It would make sense to play Jantjes at 14 given the Bok fullback is fully fit, and given the Stormers are lacking quality options out wide.
The move would give the Stormers more kicking options at the back, and with that department of their game boosted, they could afford to restore the inside-back combinations that showed great promise in 2008.
Although the Stormers are right to prize territorial dominance, their failure to start Peter Grant at 10 is perplexing. The Bok flyhalf should be encouraged to vary his play, and in the earlier rounds showed an improvement in his kicking game. He was always the better attacking option when compared to Willem de Waal, and he was always the better option where decision-making was concerned.
Restoring Grant would allow Jean de Villiers and Gcobani Bobo to resume their midfield partnership. At the back, Sireli Naqelevuki would partner Jantjes and Montgomery in a well-balanced trio.
Jantjes has played wing for the Boks before, and has done so in conjunction with Montgomery. Speaking to keo.co.za, Jantjes said the Stormers’ back-three wouldn’t suffer if the coaching staff were to revisit this dynamic.
‘Monty and I have done it before at international level, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work,’ he said. ‘It would help our kicking game to have two fullbacks in the starting team.’
Jantjes returned from a groin injury last weekend, albeit from the bench. He admitted the Stormers were off their game and that accuracy will be paramount when fronting the second-placed Waratahs in Sydney.
‘It’s a matter of taking the right options at the right time. Our kicking wasn’t great but there were other aspects that contributed. If you don’t have a good chase a good kick can go to waste. On the other hand, a good chase can make a bad kick look good,’ he said.
‘We’ve worked hard on our kicking this week, as we’re expecting them to kick on us quite a bit this Saturday.’
Prior to beating the Blues, the Waratahs were dubbed ‘boring’ by the Reds and also by certain members of the Australian press. Jantjes laughed off the suggestion, saying the well-structured Sydneysiders are as dangerous with ball in hand as they are with the boot.
‘I don’t agree with that. A good team is one that gets the points and gets the job done, so I don’t know how you can call them boring. They’re also the type of side that can turn it on in the latter stages, so call them boring at your peril.’
By Jon Cardinelli
426 Comments
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31 Mar 2009, 23:51 pm
#397 Monitoring BOT:
I assume there are quite a number of big brothers sitting as guests in the trees.
Cheers
31 Mar 2009, 23:51 pm
I see Sheriff is back on…
31 Mar 2009, 23:51 pm
#397 Monitoring BOT: You are Soda!!! I recognise your style!
31 Mar 2009, 23:52 pm
Just verifying keo $ summation.
31 Mar 2009, 23:53 pm
#392 Spooner: GBS is my friend too…when i visit my siblings johannesburg in a couple of weeks i’m going to pop in @ his crib in brakpan…
31 Mar 2009, 23:54 pm
#401 carol: Nah, Sodapop wouldn’t hide behind a new nick. I may be wrong though.
31 Mar 2009, 23:54 pm
#399 Robzim: Rob, time for bed, catch up with you at the weekend.
I hope the Stormers pull some tricks out of the bag for the Sydney match on Saturday!!
Night Lads…..
31 Mar 2009, 23:55 pm
The Sheriff must have received a pardon.
31 Mar 2009, 23:56 pm
GBS if you peek in not the same without you…***
31 Mar 2009, 23:57 pm
Yep, I’ve been threatening to duck for a while, time to fly this coop for tonight.
Adios amigos.
31 Mar 2009, 23:59 pm
#405 carol:
There is a tiny bit of hope left, who knows.
Good night, go well.
1 Apr 2009, 00:00 am
#408 Spooner:
Me too, Goodnight.
1 Apr 2009, 03:04 am
does not matter who we select in the backs – our problems are accross the park and start upfront.
a good team on paper. but the papers only good for smoking.
go sharks.
1 Apr 2009, 03:25 am
I’m really sorry I missed I.G. yesterday, IG you legend, things have only gone downhill since you left.
You had the intellect to pick out the idiots but also to roll with different senses of humour, also the wit to cut them to shreds.
We miss you.
PS No, I’m not ***.
1 Apr 2009, 03:39 am
#412 Manlybok:
I am not convinced … Sure sounds like you are angling for a phone number to me
1 Apr 2009, 03:41 am
#56 church – like chch but pronounceable:
You have been watchign WAY to much “Soporanos”
1 Apr 2009, 03:46 am
#66 church – like chch but pronounceable:
The Chinese have a system that by passes having waste money & time feeding & torturing prisoners … Exit stage left out of the court house & it is a bullet in the back of the head. Your family must repay the state for the cost of the bullet before thay can collect the remains for burial.
Or option #2 … You are an organ donor & your family may collect the remains without payign for the bullet.
But of course this only applies to lowly Officials convicted of corruption or anyone caught killing Panda Bears.
1 Apr 2009, 03:47 am
G’day
1 Apr 2009, 03:48 am
#79 church – like chch but pronounceable:
Latvian Proxy Server ? Sounds very naughty .. like it is probably illegal in several states …
1 Apr 2009, 04:05 am
#416 whatever:
Ola ! Com es da ?
1 Apr 2009, 05:16 am
#415 Rugby_Princess:
hehehehe, thats cool!
1 Apr 2009, 05:48 am
#419 Greenpoint-Gunner:
That too
1 Apr 2009, 05:52 am
Princess
1 Apr 2009, 05:59 am
More Coach
Mother-in-law attacked with anti-tank missile launcher
8:15AM Wednesday Apr 01, 2009
A desperate husband tried to kill his mother-in-law with an anti-tank missile launcher after claiming she’d turned his wife against him. Bosnian Miroslav Miljici wanted revenge after blaming his wife’s mum for the break-up of his marriage. And when his mother-in-law survived the rocket attack on her home, he tried to finish her off with a machine gun, a court in Doboj, Bosnia, was told. She survived both attacks with barely a scratch, judges heard.
Clearly ATM means differnet things in different countries …
1 Apr 2009, 11:07 am
And Rassie gets it wrong again. Human is selected…
1 Apr 2009, 18:21 pm
#423 King Shark:
Rassie is only human after all.
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