Schalk out of Cheetahs clash
27 Feb 2011
Stormers captain Schalk Burger has suffered a knee injury and will be out for at least one week.
Burger injured his knee in last Saturday’s game against the Lions and was replaced by Pieter Louw after half-time. After undergoing tests on Sunday, it’s been confirmed that he won’t be considered for the Stormers’ next game against the Cheetahs, and will see a knee specialist on Monday to determine the extent of the damage.
Burger is likely to be replaced by Louw in the back row, while Jean de Villiers should captain the Stormers in his absence. De Villiers was handed the responsibility when Burger left the field on Saturday.
Springbok flanker Juan Smith has already been ruled out for the rest of the Super Rugby season (and in all likelihood the World Cup) due to an Achilles injury. Bok coach Peter de Villiers will now be hoping that Burger is not sidelined for an extensive period.
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27 Feb 2011, 22:18 pm
Kop toe rugby stars are a dead breed, they don’t exist, as soon as they go kop toe they are history, even Willem Alberts is letting kop toe status infiltrate his kop toe head which resulted in him costing Sharks 2 certain tries on Saturday.
Bryan Habana is a typical example of kop toe disaster dissemination infiltrating influential over hyped ego’s, and John Smit is another.
FdP is a little way too precious for my liking he’s got messiah type status up in Tswane town even though he’s hardly messiah type material.
Bobby Skinstadt was so kop toe befok that he let his kop toe status interfere with his rugby career to the extent that he thought he could have a barney under the influence and stuffed his knee up before he’d even made the Bok starting team.
Bottom line kop toe brekers don’t make good rugby players, its the downright honest Joe’s like Juan Smith and some others that always get my appreciation, the other hero worshiped messiahs hardly raise a second consideration and would best be serving up kop toe books at Exclusive books istead.
27 Feb 2011, 22:19 pm
@JL1(JL1)-100: that is indeed his problem.
he is a fine player but limited unfortunately.
27 Feb 2011, 22:21 pm
@charo(charo)-99: Can you ask him to stop commentating
He is rubbish at it
It is enough that the Pomms,Welsh, Aussies and Kiwis are biased against us, now we have Joel also against us
27 Feb 2011, 22:24 pm
@JL1(JL1)-100:
Neither did Honibal, he had Percy to do that, play Grant with JLP at 12 or Morne at 15 and problem solved, the answer and name of the game today is attack the advantage line, only way to win as even Martin Johnson is instilling in English rugby. If you base your game on kicking for territory ala Naas and Morne and even Van Aswegen or Cronje then you must trade that off against direct gain line supremacy, you can’t always have both in a FH. Grant is solid in both offense and defense and I rate that above a big boot.
27 Feb 2011, 22:24 pm
@skopiskoobidoo(ilanjo)-101: the first alberts attempt was fair enough.
the ball slipped out but he was perfectly right to go for the line.
the second i have thought about a bit after watching a few times.
his support had a man on his shoulder and the last defender was looking to dummy the tackle on alberts and smoke the support runner.
so all things weighed, the dummy was a 50/50 really, a decision made in an instant.
didnt pan out. maybe it will next time.
sharks won, alberts hurt the blues players all night long, sharks fans went home happy.
finish and klaar like jackie selebi.
27 Feb 2011, 22:25 pm
@rangerman(rangerman)-102: Sound on defense, in fact very good
27 Feb 2011, 22:27 pm
@skopiskoobidoo(ilanjo)-104: Game is based on the back three
If they can break the line, then you can score the tries
Morne Steyn is too slow for a 15 for my liking
27 Feb 2011, 22:28 pm
And Grants boot is hardly that inferior to the new kids Jantjies or Lambie, they about got the same degree of power with less accuracy than Grant. Van Aswegen has a far superior out of hand punt to either the other two youngsters but nobody claiming him to be the next rising star just yet.
27 Feb 2011, 22:31 pm
@skopiskoobidoo(ilanjo)-104: tactical kicking is vital skop.
just like brett showed us yesterday when he sent odwa back after finding him out of position twice and lambie did to ranger with an awesome piece of heads up rugby gaining the sharks 60m.
grant showed his inablity to relieve pressure on his team at kings park last year when the sharks camped the stormers in their own 22m for 70% of the game.
its a weakness and not one that can be rectified with JdV at 12 so its grant or JdV.
imo neither should be bok starters.
27 Feb 2011, 22:31 pm
No Lambie and Jantjies still got work to do
27 Feb 2011, 22:34 pm
@skopiskoobidoo(ilanjo)-108: ag nonsense skop.
watch the 60m punt from lambie again.
and elton has a better boot imo.
27 Feb 2011, 22:36 pm
and it seems from first impressions that Van Aswegen is far more accurate place kicker than both Jantjies and Lambie
So what constitutes a great FH in modern rugby, continue with FdP and Morne and continue to rue the opportunities to attack when we punting it upstairs for our loosies and wings to chase after, or switch to a direct running attacking FH like Honibal which to my mind was the best period of Bok dominated rugby in the modern era under Mallet, where our points came from tries and not from penalties.
Mitchell is instilling the attacking mode of rugby into Lions, and Plumtree doing much the same at Sharks, Cheetahs problems start with Olivier as far I’m concerned because it is old style rugby that simply don’t work any more.
27 Feb 2011, 22:44 pm
Brett was very poor, McAlister was far better, Brett let the Sharks get away and dominate the advantage line all game long, Brett is no international FH no matter how good a punt or place kick he has. The difference between Carter and all other NZ fly halves is he knows when to kick and when to run, our guys like Morne don’t, our first instinct by FdP or Morne is put leather on ball, and not to carry it up, which is the only way we gonna win this WC by retaining possession and not play territorial percentages.
27 Feb 2011, 22:48 pm
@skopiskoobidoo(ilanjo)-113: funny that because that how the sharks won the cc with lambie at flyhalf.
anyways, enough kukpraat.
off to bed, tjorts.
28 Feb 2011, 01:12 am
Grant added some spark when he came on.
28 Feb 2011, 01:13 am
SA’s flyhalf stocks have never been this healthy in living memory.
28 Feb 2011, 08:07 am
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-115: Ja he looks faster. He picked up some new jutsu’s while in Japan.
28 Feb 2011, 15:05 pm
I hope he hurt himself with that double-footed soccer tackle on Murray, the d00s
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