Rassie ‘rests’ Ricky

Rassie ‘rests’ Ricky

15 Apr 2009

Dewaldt Duvenhage has replaced Ricky Januarie in the Stormers’ starting line-up named to face the Hurricanes.

A series of sub-standard performances has seen the axe fall on the Springbok scrumhalf. To date, Duvenhage has brought more to the Stormers from an attacking perspective and this may be why Rassie Erasmus has given the youngster an extended opportunity.

But when speaking to keo.co.za, Erasmus said a number of this weekend’s selections are down to player rotation.

‘We’ve been wanting to make a few changes since round three or four but because of a few results and the bye that hasn’t been possible. We beat the Lions but then we had a break, so we didn’t want to change much and risk losing momentum.

‘We then played and lost three close games so were reluctant to make changes again. But at this point, we thought it necessary to give a few of the other guys a chance.’

Erasmus said Januarie is a valuable member of the squad but Duvenhage’s strengths will be suited to this particular clash.

‘He’s particularly good with clearing the ball from the ruck and has a good kicking game. He’s played well off the bench and deserves this opportunity.’

Erasmus has made a few changes to the pack with Hilton Lobberts coming into the second row. Tiaan Liebenberg replaces Schalk Brits at hooker while Brian Mujati has been bracketed with Wicus Blaauw at tighthead due to a head injury. If Mujati is cleared of concussion on Friday, he will start.

Brok Harris, who returns from a pre-season leg injury, is named on the bench but will only feature if he passes a late fitness test. Bok lock Andries Bekker joined the squad on Sunday but has not cracked the match 22.

‘Brok’s arriving soon and will hopefully train with us on Thursday. We want to see how he will slot in at the scrums and at the lineout before making any final calls. Brian’s availability will also impact on our use of Brok at the weekend.

‘Having a guy like Tiaan in the mix will help, as scrumming is one of his strengths. With all the injuries we need a player like Tiaan to aid the tighthead,’ said Erasmus.

Stormers – 15 Conrad Jantjes, 14 Wylie Human, 13 Gcobani Bobo, 12 Jean De Villiers (c), 11 Sireli Naqelevuki, 10 Peter Grant, 9 Dewaldt Duvenhage, 8 Luke Watson, 7 Duane Vermeulen, 6 Schalk Burger, 5 Adriaan Fondse, 4 Hilton Lobberts, 3 Brian Mujati/ Wicus Blaauw, 2 Tiaan Liebenberg, 1 JD Moller.
Subs: 16 Schalk Brits, 17 Brok Harris, 18 AJ Venter, 19 Pieter Louw, 20 Ricky Januarie, 21 Willem De Waal, 22 Dylan Des Fountain.

By Jon Cardinelli


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  • 451.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 20:55 pm

    #442 carol: yes….about 7 pm our sun is set….then a slight chill sets in…luv it..

  • 452.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 20:56 pm

    #447 carol: :cry:

  • 453.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 20:56 pm

    #446 grant10: Friday around 11:40 am

  • 454.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 20:57 pm

    #440 grant10: You know I don’t agree. I think he’s good. But at different things.

    the BEST BEST looseforward performance I have seen for years was on saturday with Brussouw, Smith & Sholtz. A literal pack of wolves – they were everywhere. All the time. All across teh park. Onthe deck, in the air, tackling. The 2 white scrum caps were a machine, with Smith doing the tight loose. Man I enjoyed it.

    Luke’s not in that league. But I am sure many agree and many disagree. The Luke conundrum.

    Baywatch is also god.

    But Brussouw & Stegmann are excellent.

  • 455.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 20:57 pm

    #449 carol: Must be a member of my fanclub…. hahaha

  • 456.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 20:57 pm

    #447 carol: i like rassie a lot …just not as a stormers coach…he did great with the cheetahs…very cool guy …but we need the best of the best…

  • 457.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 20:58 pm

    #453 SodaJoe: Better be careful.

    Baywatch is GOOD.

  • 458.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 20:58 pm

    #448 SpringbokSarah: I do…yes..

  • 459.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:00 pm

    #455 grant10: well then who? Anybody but Jake!

  • 460.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:00 pm

    #452 grootblousmile: cool…i may need to reschedule some stuff…not missing that…

  • 461.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:01 pm

    I’d swap Spies and Pedrie around for this game… Spies’s hands at the back of the scrum worries me…. so Spies at No 7 and Pedrie at No 8…

  • 462.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:01 pm

    #448 SpringbokSarah: Chuck is a “Northern” term of endearment!!

  • 463.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:02 pm

    #454 grootblousmile: Your fan club, now I have heard everything!! :-)

  • 464.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:03 pm

    #453 SodaJoe: cheetahs played well…hope they replicate this weekend…as for brussouw…class act…steggmann too…i wonder if PDV gonna do the bold thing and go with an out and out fetcher…gut says he wont soda…

  • 465.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:03 pm

    #453 SodaJoe: Thanks for your predictions earlier. I should have listened to your and GBS shouts on the Bulls last week, I went with the herd !!

  • 466.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:03 pm

    #462 carol: Yeah, I have some GBS groupies….

    Hehehe

  • 467.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:04 pm

    #457 grant10: he will look for every excuse not to play him.

    He’s too short
    Not good enough
    He wears back jocks

  • 468.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:04 pm

    #465 grootblousmile: I bet they all look like the Bulls Cheerleaders too!!!

  • 469.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:05 pm

    #458 SpringbokSarah: LOL…Jake is a committed and decent coach…he will be an improvement …and attract some good players…

  • 470.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:05 pm

    #455 grant10: With a team of “Show Ponies” perhaps they should find a racehorse trainer!!!
    Only joking….. !!! :-)

  • 471.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:05 pm

    #467 carol: Don’t know…. my bouncers keep them out of eyeshot….

  • 472.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:06 pm

    #461 carol: now why would anybody want to be called Chuck?… I don’t get you Northern people

  • 473.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:06 pm

    #469 carol: …. or a good groom…

    Hahaha

  • 474.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:06 pm

    Robzim, Hi there, do you prefer to wash or dry ? Hehehehehe
    You new men are wonderful, I also have one!!

  • 475.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:07 pm

    #460 grootblousmile: that is a glaring weakness in spies game…if he sorts that out…and the odd missed tackle…he will be the best 8 in the world…

  • 476.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:07 pm

    #464 carol: That’s quite funny. You didn’t go with the Bulls, you went with the herd. LOL

  • 477.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:08 pm

    #468 grant10: There’s not a doubt in my mind that he’s a good coach. And the Stormers will probably do really well.

    I still don’t like him, Grant, you can coach them

  • 478.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:08 pm

    #466 SpringbokSarah: no…he will play him as an out and out fetcher…watch this space…

  • 479.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:09 pm

    #470 grootblousmile: Well don’t give in to temptation!!

  • 480.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:09 pm

    #473 carol: new men?

  • 481.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:09 pm

    #473 carol: I don’t do dishes…. really I don’t…

    The Dishwasher or the Zulumatic does that….

    Hehehe

    (No offence intended)

  • 482.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:10 pm

    #463 grant10:

    6. Brussouw
    7. Smith
    8. Spies

    Kill any loose trio.

    6. Brussouw
    7. Schalk
    8. Spies

    Kankowski on the bench.

    Piet Snor could do well with:

    6. Brussouw
    7. Smith
    8. Watson

    Unfortunately I don’t think the great Schalk Burger is in form enough to be guaranteed a place in the Springbok team.

  • 483.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:10 pm

    #477 grant10: ja right out of the team

  • 484.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:11 pm

    #471 SpringbokSarah: No, I may be from the Northern Hemisphere but I am not a Northerner, I am a Softie Southener ask Big Hit!!
    It’s a bit complicated! Like South Africa and its divisions!!

  • 485.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:11 pm

    #473 carol: Just reward us well, and we will do pretty much anything.

  • 486.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:11 pm

    #469 carol: LOL

  • 487.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:12 pm

    #472 grootblousmile: They would be well turned out but perhaps not quite fit enough!

  • 488.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:13 pm

    Waar is Pietman nou!

    I’ve just visited that clown CC’s website, and boy what a good laugh I had. He’s actually established a website to share his “wisdom” with the world. Only problem is, he’s probably the only guy who visits the site.

    So all the effort he pours into it is largely wasted, with him being the only guy who reads his own rubbish. No wonder he came onto this blog to try and get some attention.

    Hehehe.

  • 489.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:13 pm

    #356 grant10:

    The time of making calls based on heart and emotion is over. It is now time to get real and save what can still be saved.
    You should do the same, we must at least break into the top 100.

    For this weekend I would say:

    Blues / Highlanders Blues 7-10 (home team)
    Brumbies / Bulls Brumbies 5-9 (long tour, Matfield/Botha gone)
    Reds / Lions Reds 12 – 15 (no need to explain)
    Canes / Stormers Canes by 7 -10 (Damn)
    Tahs / Force Tahs 4-7 (50/50 call, home team)
    Cheetahs / Chiefs Chiefs by 12-17(One swallow does not make a summer)

    Sharks / Saders Sharks by 10-13 (Home team, travel factor)

    The Stormers might still do something so I might change that one.

  • 490.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:14 pm

    #476 SpringbokSarah: thanks …but no thanks…skop next in line…

  • 491.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:15 pm

    #479 SpringbokSarah: Sarah, a “New Man” is what you want here is the checklist-
    Will do food shopping with you.
    Can rustle up a meal, if not a dinner party.
    Knows how to hang out the washing and where the washing machine is.
    Knows the location of the laundry basket.
    Does not think farting is funny!!
    Is great in bed!!

  • 492.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:15 pm

    #486 carol: Mmmmm, maybe Rassie is only a good groom….. not a coach….

    With his 2 groom hands, Gary Glitter and Alistair Coetzee…

  • 493.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:16 pm

    #473 carol:

    Howzit Carol,

    Twice a week a wash and dry. It is a small price.
    How is Stormer doing at his new home?

  • 494.grant10: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:16 pm

    #481 SodaJoe: i would go with brussouw …smith and spies…luke on the bench because he covers 6 and 8 ..

  • 495.SpringbokSarah: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:16 pm

    #481 SodaJoe: if I was PDV (sounds like if I win the election I promise…)

  • 496.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:16 pm

    #480 grootblousmile: Lets face it we would be incompatible!! :-)

  • 497.Tacitus: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:17 pm

    #488 Robzim:

    I’ve been looking for you. You don’t respond to my calls, you don’t reply to my messages…hehe… just joking.

    How about revisiting your little prediction for the Bulls/Stormers tours to Australasia this year. Something about the Stormers having as big a chance as the Bulls of making the semis…

  • 498.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:17 pm

    #487 Tacitus: Dis al laatnag daar in Skrefiesogieland waar Pieta bly…. hy snork nou al hoofstuk 3….

  • 499.carol: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:18 pm

    #484 SodaJoe: Just remind me what would you consider to be a “just reward” for your efforts? :-) ;-)

  • 500.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    15 Apr 2009, 21:18 pm

    #488 Robzim: KayakBimbo.

    I love looking down on my serfs (no not surf).

    The Imperial King Joseph of Lofty Position #63 says that you will indeed drop down further with your Quixotian choices and with your Spanish sidekick SpeedoGonzalez.

    Bulls will win.

    The rest are ok.

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