Stormers deny breakdown blues
6 Feb 2012
Allister Coetzee expects referees to be much stricter in the coming Super Rugby competition and it’s for this reason that he’s not concerned about the Stormers’ recent defeat at the breakdown.
It’s at this time of the year that coaches talk about ‘putting structures in place’, ‘shaking off the rust’, as well as ‘assessing the quality of performance’. While Coetzee has used these phrases liberally in the build up to the 2012 tournament, he’s also employed a selection policy aimed at handing a squad in excess of 40 players game time to ensure the Stormers won’t be lacking for depth in a competition that starts in February and ends in August.
Nevertheless, there have been several areas of concern. The decision not to seek a replacement for specialist openside flank Francois Louw in the off-season seems flawed, although Coetzee maintains the current defensive systems are geared towards a collective ‘fetching’ effort rather than that of an individual.
And yet, the Stormers have struggled in this department thus far. They may have won comfortably against the Lions but both the Stormers coach and captain admitted afterwards that their defensive breakdown work was sub-standard.
Last Saturday, they came second to the Cheetahs who do possess a specialist fetcher in Heinrich Brüssow, but this still wasn’t enough to force Coetzee to reassess his stance on the matter.
‘I saw a big improvement at the breakdown,’ said Coetzee. ‘We conceded fewer penalties and our discipline was far better if you consider that we conceded three yellow cards in that Lions match.
‘As for the Cheetahs’ performance [and their perceived victory at the breakdown], I’m not too worried. It has nothing to do with having a [specialist] opensider. They were lucky to get away with murder in some instances, and I’m not criticising the referee [Craig Joubert] but referees will be much harsher in the Super Rugby competition.
‘There was a lot of spoiling, a lot of things like players joining from the side and plenty of cynical play. I know refs will be more lenient on that in the pre-season because there is a bit of coaching that goes on, but it won’t be like that once the competition kicks off. Craig did penalise the Cheetahs for some infringements, but perhaps where it was cynical there needed to be a harsher punishment.
‘The Cheetahs also came to Cape Town with the aim to win, and that was evident in the way they played with their kicking game. For me, I’m never happy to lose at home, but I’m satisfied with the answers I received from this match.’
The Stormers have now played three warm-up matches and will play their final pre-season game against the Kings this Saturday. Coetzee is set to make the final squad cut in the next two days, and he reiterated that the clash with the Cheetahs had shown him why some players are ready for Super Rugby while others require more time to develop.
‘It’s clear to me that some players require one-on-one technical work, and they won’t be in the final squad.
‘That’s not to say they won’t be used later in the season. It’s a long competition and you need to lean on your greater squad. What that means is that we need to work with the guys that don’t make it now to ensure they are ready to make the step up later.’
By Jon Cardinelli
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7 Feb 2012, 00:10 am
So much utter garbage or just plain s hit is written on these pages that even try as I might to stay away(from it) I end up correcting all the erroneous mess thinking that you sorry lot improve your knowledge and attitudes, but to no avail.
Now PA sees himself as knowing all Cape rugby, east and west(and is handled as such) but at best he only knows that of the 15% sector(should actually be less than 15 but that allows for his ‘media contact’).
For instance there are at least 95 clubs(not 90 or less) and what makes the top 20-30 clubs more important?
Who is to blame for appointing absolute dummies/puppets Chippie Solomon and Thelo Wakefield as managers(Stormers and elsewhere) initially giving them notions for genuine admin. positions later ,like vice-president of WPRU in the case of Wakefield? You worshippers should more often believe that whatever you sow, so shall you reap.
Bet that PA does not even know which unions, let alone clubs, any or all of Viccie Christians, Jowa Abrahams, Thelo W., Herman Abrahams and others emanate from? But he is the guru of Cape rugby??
many of those clubs he is so dismissive off are older than he is, the rat.
7 Feb 2012, 00:46 am
My does that “Super Black” get to you? You are worse than a spitting cobra or should I say black mamba now? When you become emotional I win the set.
Or is it that ” your ‘cookie’ Mazibuko” that gets to you. Do you have DA notions like her where her skin is clearly approaching that of Zille and her hair with its style taking her towards De Lille? And yes lest I forget you too are proudly DA, not so? Black birds of a feather, gathering together, maybe?
It clearly seems I wrongly gave you more credit than you are worth.
Are you truly so effin dumb?
If Tutu is “putting distance between him and the “Super Blacks ” how can he be a “Super Black”? – your silly question
Because you are so superficial about most things in life,it seems, you mostly fall for and believe the ‘colour’ c rap which I deliberately play around with whereas most times when I use terms like “arrogant Super Black” it is an attitude, more often than not, political, that I am referring to. But it all flies over your empty head.
Do you think Steve or Aubs. Mokwape or other BC guys reference to the colour is just that or is it the attitude of pride of who you are and a lot more?
You get it so all wrong that you do not yet realise that HG’s “ethnic black” is a reference to a tribe such as Xhosa or Zulu etc. and that plus it coming from him , a self-admitted conservative, is clearly a racist reference as his opposite reference is to “white” but the word tribe is never mentioned.
As for me, only because of your concern, I am a human being and a humanist in Africa hailing from the southern tip of that now messed up(mostly by thieving Europeans) continent.
Any more questions?
Read Black Mask White Faces by the Fanon which it seems clearly you have not done yet.
I wonder if you have even read Black Like Me?
7 Feb 2012, 01:19 am
‘Black like me’ isn’t that the skin-lightener range you chaps are so fond of?
7 Feb 2012, 01:28 am
@Transformation-144:
Yep typical SARU ‘last-minute trouble-shooting’… this should have been done for the Kings (extra international games of a better standard than the Nations Cup) and they might have already been competitive in the CC on merit… but yep more ‘bla-bla’…
7 Feb 2012, 01:51 am
@Transformation-173:
Just to entertain you, and simultaneously educate you thereby exposing your now well-defined stupidity, let me jot down a few smart points just for your personal benefit, you are afterall a black buddy, albeit Super Black now.
The article has too many lose points, typical for a layman.
Firstly, like you, Huisman is clearly ignorant to the extent that he does not even know the BOOK he passes judgement on was published way back in the 1980s . Also all of you, including Timmy, are drama queens pandering to a crowd.
That book is written for post-graduate students of that course and refers to long-distance runners and not the larger general public. Huisman’s specific focus is carbo-loading and thus only has reference to ultra-runners and athletes
Tim mentions a personal specific pathology(defective insulin) which he thinks may affect other people also because many ignoramuses,some on this site, read that book but do not comprehend what they read, adequately(they are not me).
What you definitely do not know is that there are classes of carbohydrates and people like you mostly gobble simple carbos.( mono- and disaccharides – sugars and sweet fruit rich in glucose, fructose, sucrose etc.) and not complex carbos.(polysaccs. – vegetables).
Monos- & disaccs. get into the blood too rapidly and in too large concentrations and make you louts as unmanageable as you are on this site every morning. The excess is quickly changed into triglycerides and thus into fat storage areas.
Lastly, being irreligious I am no disciple of anyone, least of all of Tim. I admire and worship good ideas in all aspects of life.
Brilliant but deceased medical scientists, like Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, are my hereos whilst living ones like Hans Krebs I admire.
{{ Among his many publications is the remarkable survey of energy transformations in living matter, published in 1957, in collaboration with H. L. Kornberg, which discusses the complex chemical processes which provide living organisms with high-energy phosphate by way of what is known as the Krebs or citric acid cycle. }}
i.e. ATP production in a process referred to as energy metabolism.
7 Feb 2012, 06:07 am
” Former Stormers director of rugby Rassie Erasmus says interference from Western Province’s elected officials prompted him to resign. ”
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This airy flairy diatribe is so full of holes that not a single grain of rice will be held by it and thus there cannot be much grain of substance attached to its publication by your press buddies. You, Ras Das, even say so in your own words here so can it not evenremotely be YOU? :
“It’s hard to point fingers and pinpoint the problems when you are within the system.”
As for this sourpuss moan and groan that appeared in the media in planetrugby and supersport this clearly locks down that title of supreme ‘verkrampte’ COWARD- he earned that tag years ago from me already.
One swears every mirror he encountered since moving to C.T in Dec. 2007 shattered from Oct. 2008 forwards.
He thus never sees himself in those Cape mirrors and thus it can never be him to answer for that lack of success, much like those millions of other ‘verkramptes’ who steadfastly claim they are not racist and ‘apartheid ‘ is not their doing and baby.
“WP rugby has been run the same way for a long time so I can’t presume to tell them how to run it.
“But I don’t think coaching appointments should be made on rugby coaching ability when the job entails a lot more political stuff than rugby stuff. ”
Explain then how they won so many CCs and especially that golden period in the ’80s? And when has sport in S.A. ever not been political? Remember B.J. Vorster and Pietie langneus K. and many more?
Within a month or so of getting into Cape T. he brought players like R. Jan. and G. Bobo and more and none but Mujati were needed. Yet he was run out of town by whom in Stellies if not the ‘boere’/farmers for farmng guessed at indiscretions yet to be proved?
Has_Ras, without seeing W.P. play a match in his era as new coach, stripped L.Watson of the captaincy and made all of Bekker, Bobo,Skeate, Burger and more and eventually JDV captains in his first 7 or so games in charge and only in 2010 CC was LW given back that captains band supposedly by AC as Rassie could not ever be seen to make LW. captain. Why? Who were you scared off, certainly not the people of C.T.? Who were you answering to? Is it those erstwhile tobacco pushing money moguls outside of C.T.?
How do you explain all your errors in your first competition(2008 S14) and do you blame WPRU for those first 4 losses then too?
What kind of a moron are you who blames people, even within the structure who you deem want your team to lose , for those eventual very many losses? Its like giving me supreme powers when I want the “SpringHOGS” to lose and they, in fact, do so and I am blamed for that, really now? The team loses because it is inadequate between those four lines and between their ears.
My, you even made it impossible for the remaining management to even claim a potential winning season because you have already claimed that for yourself mostly with these words:
“I felt that by ending my association with WP eight months ahead of the contracted period I would be able to have my say and hopefully by doing that I would help the situation for Allister Coetzee and the other coaches.
“Hopefully they will win a trophy in the next eight months … ”
Even here you are lying as you clearly left earlier simply because you could not bear being kicked out once your programme again failed, like every single one of them since you hit the Cape, to emphasiise your total inadequuacy as a coach of international repute.
7 Feb 2012, 06:24 am
@ET.-206:
There has not been a single successful rugby coach that has allowed a player to own a number on the jersey. So for what reason or scary power Ras_das was the #6 jersey taken out of the team ethic?
Any coach worth his salt knows well that the player is never bigger than the team which in turn is never bigger than the game itself.
The POWERS generate from the team ethic, no more no less. Without the 14 others in a rugby team the lone ‘star’ does never win thus does not shine.
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