Liebenberg out for nine weeks
13 Feb 2011
Tiaan Liebenberg has injured medial ligaments in his knee and will be out of action for eight to nine weeks.
The Stormers’ hooker went down in the 32nd minute in Saturday’s game against Boland and had to be placed on a stretcher and escorted from the field. Liebenberg appeared to be in great pain, and the time it took to get him onto the stretcher indicated that he may have sustained significant damage to his knee.
After the game, a glum-looking Allister Coetzee confirmed that Liebenberg’s injury was serious. It was feared that Liebenberg had torn his anterior cruciate ligament which would have meant a nine-month layoff. However, further scans revealed the damage was done to Liebenberg’s medial ligament, and that he would be sidelined for eight to nine weeks.
News of his injury is a massive blow to the Stormers’ ambitions of winning the Sanzar competition. Liebenberg creates terrific momentum with his bustling runs, is a key cog in the Stormers’ lineout machine and a powerful scrummager. Deon Fourie has shown much promise, but outside of that, the Stormers are thin on experienced hooking options.
On Saturday night, Coetzee spoke about how he was satisfied with the Stormers’ depth, but given that Fourie only recently returned from an injury of his own, the Stormers may have problems at No 2. Siyabonga Ntubeni is inexperienced, while Callie Visagie is another who hasn’t enjoyed exposure at this high level.
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13 Feb 2011, 17:22 pm
Lol its just a game where the fu-ck have your conversations gone to.
13 Feb 2011, 17:25 pm
you know why i hate you afrikaners? my daughter came home with a afrikaner and after a few drinks he goes on how kak things are now and that in his mind nothing has changed. He wanted to hit me and show me how his father/grandfather treated us coloureds! pathetic afrikaner. maybe he slept with my daughter, maybe not, but he wont show his face at my house again after i threatened him with the knife
13 Feb 2011, 17:27 pm
thats how you are. Ras3xist! Julle wil ons dogters en vroue n@@i maar julle wil nie ons mans werk gee nie
13 Feb 2011, 17:40 pm
Oh bother, now the drinking has started….
13 Feb 2011, 17:41 pm
Just beware… the nick stealer is back… this is Cap0 with a ‘zero’ and not Capo…
someone wants to stir the pot more… despicable.
13 Feb 2011, 17:49 pm
Habana is die enigste WP ou wat die coloureds spyker nie!
13 Feb 2011, 18:01 pm
@Cap0(Cap0)-156: tomato boy we know it’s you…
13 Feb 2011, 18:03 pm
@Cap0(Cap0)-156: nic stealing DOOS
13 Feb 2011, 18:04 pm
i’m watching the irish/french game @ the gym so not concentrating…why does it look like even Sexo is mixing his game up better than MSteyn? Yesses Morne needs to pull the finger man!
And like i said earlier, the time for staid/carthorse fullbacks a.la percy is over, check what Bowe is doing!
13 Feb 2011, 18:05 pm
Provice 43 – Racist Bulle 12
13 Feb 2011, 18:06 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-159: Morne Steyn is old news. Lambie has seen to that.
13 Feb 2011, 18:07 pm
@ MTN REDLION = Lions looser for 10 years and counting.
13 Feb 2011, 18:09 pm
stop it now tomatoboy/wo…will kill.nick stealer,you should at least try to improve on the memtioned two’s vocab.as not to give away your game so easily.you are actually quite funny tomatoboy!
13 Feb 2011, 18:11 pm
@Cap0(Cap0)-160: DOOS
13 Feb 2011, 18:14 pm
MTN REDLIONS ja, jou vrou s’n hy proe lekker
13 Feb 2011, 18:15 pm
Steve Hofmeyr has dumped tickets worth about R5 000 into the Jukskei River in protest against Bono’s comments on the “shoot the farmer” song.
New Po3s after Capo & Skopskiet = Bono!
13 Feb 2011, 18:20 pm
very nice try by the froggies
13 Feb 2011, 18:20 pm
french beginning to turn the screw on the irish.brilliant try and into the lead.
13 Feb 2011, 18:27 pm
french just need to improve on their defence and all kiwi supporters can start tossing and turning in their sleep!just a pity i am already doing the same at the prospect of john smit playing and leading the boks into battle!
13 Feb 2011, 18:35 pm
feck adoodle dandy !!! 25 phases later and Ireland scores, fantastic game of rugby. Yipeeeeeeeeee
13 Feb 2011, 18:38 pm
great rugby when no quotas are involved : Chilliboy/habana/de jongh/january/zane!!!!
13 Feb 2011, 18:43 pm
french slowing the game down very nicely…clever buggers!
13 Feb 2011, 18:53 pm
brilliant game of rugby!well done france
13 Feb 2011, 19:18 pm
The Stormers announced on Sunday afternoon that the injury to Tiaan Liebenberg’s right knee is not a torn ACL, as initially thought, but rather damage to medial ligaments in the knee.
Liebenberg sustained the injury during Saturday’s pre-season friendly against the Boland Cavaliers.
It was feared that he would be ruled out for nine months, but the latest news indicates that his injury layoff will be just 8-9 weeks.
13 Feb 2011, 19:20 pm
I suppose we must be grateful for small mercies. 9 months has turned into 2.
I like Deon Fourie, he is a great impact player, especially in the last 20 when the game has opened up a bit. Now it’s time for him to stand up and be counted. I think he has it in him, but the front row will suffer come scrum time as if it wasn’t already a problem.
13 Feb 2011, 19:27 pm
is it that difficult to diagnose a knee. why always revised calls on injuries? scan it then make a call surely
13 Feb 2011, 19:30 pm
So i googled CAPTCHA test, its there to tell humans and a computer apart.
And yes thats how bored i have been today,
nighty night.
13 Feb 2011, 19:35 pm
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-177:
You must be bored if you’re going to bed at 7.30 Hugz.
Oh, I finished ‘The Stand’ today. Great read it was too.
13 Feb 2011, 19:42 pm
@JockBok(JockBok)-178: she’s going to take a ‘bath’ withGunther first and THEN bed time…
13 Feb 2011, 19:51 pm
hahahahahaha Transie, i did go take a bath, am off to watch tv now, am so not used to sitting on my bum all day doing nothing.
JOCKBOK so it is agreed, Stormers are the Vegas crowd
remember to read those 2 Robert Ruark books i told you about. Leon Uris also excellent writer.
Am really gone now.
14 Feb 2011, 00:30 am
You guys are a disgrace. This makes me sick. This site used to be about the rugby. A place for gentleman. Makes me sick.
14 Feb 2011, 04:33 am
Stormers should contact John Smit and hear if he is not interested in a transfer…
14 Feb 2011, 04:35 am
Only a third?!?!
A third of New Zealanders plan to step out of the office for a “quickie” to mark Valentine’s Day, a study claims. The survey of 500 Kiwis found fitting in some private time with their partner featured prominently in their plans tomorrow…
No wonder the population is not growing.
14 Feb 2011, 07:59 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-183: The sheep are very hard to catch on Valentines Day !!!
14 Feb 2011, 08:05 am
@stew(stew)-184:
Haha nervous or what? After many, many years evolution has made sheep a little errr edgy around 14 Feb…
14 Feb 2011, 08:18 am
@Slartibartfast(Slartibartfast)-185: He he , well i will just have to catch my wife instead
14 Feb 2011, 08:25 am
@stew(stew)-186:
Just don’t tell the others…
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