Dream on both of you… two players of colour in a 22 does not cut it in RSA!

Stormers after Hougaard, Bulls after Sadie. Interesting.

The Stormers v Cheetahs game promises to also be a humdinger, the tahs are in spectacular form, reckon not many sides will get a result in bloem at teh moment.

@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-116: Aplon’s position is non-negotiable at this stage.

Next year, if de Villiers go and Viljoen moves to Cape Town;

Viljoen
Fourie
Sadie
de Jongh
Aplon
Cronje
Duvenhage
Vermeulen
Elstadt
Burger/Koster
Bekker
Fondse
Harris
Fourie
Blaauw

I’d possibly go

9 Duvenhage, 10 Van Aswegen, 11 Engelbrecht, 12 JdJ, 13 Sadie, 14 Fourie, 15 Aplon / Viljoen

1 Your team is dependent on Viljoen going to the Cape. Hope it happens.
2 Poolman is solid – but never really impressed me. Rather have Sadie there.
3 You left out Jaque – not sure what his plans are post WC -hope he re-signs with WPRU.

Elgar Watts is with Boland – should’ve started ahead of Coleman as he played in a couple of the warm-up games before the S15.
That young 10 with the baby Boks is Johan Goosen – from the Free State. That’s one to watch.
Not sure of the others.

If Lambie and Michalak and Bismark and Beast and Alberts and Deysel and JPP and Mvovo wake up and don’t step back like Stormers did for 70 minutes last week, Sharks can actually pull an upset in Tswane Town under the Jacaranda trees and show the Bully Breeks they not as super duper invincible as they might have thought they are.

Between, Ludick, Bosman, Terblanche, Steyn, WO, Pretorius and Kirchner you might have the most mediocre one dimensional backs parading around in world rugby. Only the 4 wings got any gas and any rugby revolutionary rectitude going the other 6 or 7 half participants are a snore a minute if and when they get hold of the ball.

This is the sort of Stormers team I would envisage in 2012.

15 Aplon
14 Sadie
13 Jaque
12 JDJ
11 JJ Engelbrecht
10 van Aswegen
9 Duvenhage
8 Vermeulen
7 Elstadt
6 Schalk
5 Bekker
4 Eben Etsebeth
3 Brok
2 Liebenberg
1 Blaauw

And there’s still Koster, rooi-kop Etsebeth, Deon Fourie,Lionel Cronje, JDV etc on the bench.

Or you could go

Viljoen
Poolman
Sadie
JdJ
Engelbrecht
Van Aswegen
Duvenhage
Koster
Elstadt
Carr
Bekker
Etsebeth
Harris
Fourie
Blaauw

Kitschoff, Liebenberg, Steenkamp, Vermeulen, Schreuder, Cronje, Aplon

JdV, Burger, Fourie, Coleman

where that Venter in die center No.12 at u20′s from? wtf happened to the all promising Elgar Watts? who’s the No.2 hooker at u20′s? where is the No.15 and No.10 and No.8 from?

I hear you. I’m a huge JDV fan. Always have been. But. Life goes on. These guys only have such a long shelf life. In this professional set-up one sometimes has to be brutal.
JDV is approaching 30 if not already. And he’s still in the match 22. It’s not like I’ve ditched him like I did Bryan. The guys I have selected are the future.
And the future looks bright.