Bash resumes pivotal role

Bash resumes pivotal role

Flyhalf Peter Grant will start his first match of the season when the Stormers host the Blues at Newlands this Friday.

Gary van Aswegen started at No 10 in the Stormers’ first two matches against the Hurricanes and Sharks. While the Cape side won both matches, Van Aswegen struggled to produce a dominant showing and the backline as a collective failed to fire on attack.

While the Stormers still hope that the 22-year-old Van Aswegen will develop into a good flyhalf option, it’s clear Grant is now their main man.

‘Peter is a Springbok and has a lot of experience,’ coach Allister Coetzee said of Grant’s selection. ‘It’s a very good Blues side that we’re up against, and so there’s going to be a lot of pressure in that [flyhalf] channel. Peter has shown it time and again that he can cope with that kind of pressure.’

Grant returned from Japan five days before that Sharks match and was rushed straight into the match 22. He came off the bench in the second half to not only settle the backline but also nail a touchline penalty to win the game.

Despite Grant’s heroics, he may not be utilised as the Stormers’ primary goal-kicker. Fullback Joe Pietersen missed four attempts at goal in that Sharks match, but could still be entrusted with responsibilities for the coming matches.

‘To be honest, I don’t have a definitive answer to that question,’ Coetzee told keo.co.za. ‘It is something that will be decided at the captain’s run on Thursday.’

Coetzee confirmed that lock Rynhardt Elstadt and prop Deon Carstens, who have both been sidelined with injury, will return to action in the Vodacom Cup this weekend. Depending on how they fare, they could be available for the Stormers’ next clash against the Lions.

Meanwhile, team captain Schalk Burger has had the plaster removed from his injured knee and will begin his rehabilitation next week. It was initially said that Burger would be back for the second tour match against the Crusaders, and on Tuesday Coetzee confirmed that things are on track regarding Burger’s return to the playing field.

Stormers – 15 Joe Pietersen, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Juan de Jongh, 12 Jean de Villiers (c), 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Peter Grant, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Nick Koster, 7 Duane Vermeulen, 6 Siya Kolisi, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Tiaan Liebenberg, 1 Steven Kitshoff.
Subs: 16 Skara Ntubeni, 17 Frans Malherbe, 18 De Kock Steenkamp, 19 Nizaam Carr, 20 Louis Schrueder, 21 Gary van Aswegen, 22 Gerhard van den Heever.

By Jon Cardinelli


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  • 301.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    Here’s one for you Skop. I chose it because it has bongos and you’ve made it abundantly clear that you adore them. Bear in mind this was a live recording. Doesn’t get tighter and more energetic than this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnu3TqDKXZY

    Open your mind.

  • 302.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-294: way outta my league eh?

    whattatoss.

    why dont you climb out of your own a nu s you funny old t os s er.

    p.s. just waiting fr the sea to clean up, you cant shoot what you cant sea eh?

    @charo(charo)-298: ja like i say, no interest in watching.

    nah lol, i shot a 13kg queenfish. current world record is 12.2 so i smashed it. feeling pretty stoked about it really.

  • 303.ufo: Reply to this comment

    skop don’t dodge…

    tell us… how do you listen to music on a day to day basis…?

  • 304.cab: Reply to this comment

    @rangerman(rangerman)-302:
    so u got your name in the guiness book now of hoe?

  • 305.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment

    anyone you pseudo rockabilly peanut brains wanna ‘hear’ something a little outside of your ingrained mesmerized myopia … here catch a little sample of this.. then tell me if you got any ears either side of your one track brains…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYAVNJDfqxs&feature=related

  • 306.ufo: Reply to this comment

    @charo(charo)-300:

    hahaha…

    welcome to my life…!! :lol:

  • 307.ufo: Reply to this comment

    @rangerman(rangerman)-302:

    cool stuff ranger…

    have you got it verified…?

    let me know if and when you do…

    i’d like to boast i know a world record holder… :wink:

    :lol:

  • 308.charo: Reply to this comment

    @rangerman(rangerman)-302:

    fark me i’ve never seen a queenie anywhere close to that size.

    good on you – must have looked like a gt through the goggles?

  • 309.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    @cab(cab)-304: haha, no man, not yet…

  • 310.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment

    Paco de Lucia is one el supremo Flamenco guitarist .. you wanna know what maestro artistry is.. that’s another whole other level..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1IJcmxOa2k&feature=related

  • 311.cab: Reply to this comment

    what in gods name u call that cacophony?!

    sounds like a yak farting…aggeennee

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYSbUOoq4Vg

  • 312.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    @ufo(ufo)-307: haha, its a mission to do bud so i will have to wait and see if it is even worh pursuing.

    awesome fish all the same.

    @charo(charo)-308: lol it looked like a monster.
    it was chasing a shoal of needlecales and whe i saw them coming at me tightly bunched, i knew they had company following so i got ready.

    seriously never thought i would ever break any world records though.

  • 313.rangerman: Reply to this comment

    anyways, i am off to bed.

    have a good one all!

  • 314.cab: Reply to this comment

    @rangerman(rangerman)-309:
    well you should, quite a claim to fame. where u go diving, umhlanga? the viz cant be great?

  • 315.ufo: Reply to this comment

    @rangerman(rangerman)-313:

    cheers ranger

  • 316.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-305: Each to his own, hey. Just remember that no one thinks you’re cool for being exotic. This pretentious habit worked back in the sixties, but the world has become a smaller place since then. Very few people are still impressed by a designer world music collection. So please, leave your Ravi Shankar and your Ali Farka Toure and your panpipes of the Bolivian Andes packed away. We don’t want to hear that sht.

  • 317.cab: Reply to this comment

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-316:
    yessus u know this oke well, i think he like that ravi fella also – this is kak music, where is the soul, these guitar virtuosos are merely a nerds study group in string-plucking talent and practice – where the creativity, where they spontenaity, where’s the goddamn larger-than-life performance?

  • 318.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    @cab(cab)-317: Ja, it’s the chess team of music. No balls, no soul, nothing to remember it by.

  • 319.cab: Reply to this comment

    paco ‘quick fingers’ flamenco aint too bad..

  • 320.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment

    talking heads are kinda cutsie wootsie .. just nowhere near John Mclaughlan or Paco de Lucia’s league .. or Carlos Santana for that matter…..

    never mind in time they’ll likely grow up and become proper musicians yet..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwfyxpriAM&feature=related

    or hows this for a proper ‘musician’
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v5IKa_fPoo&feature=related

  • 321.cab: Reply to this comment

    are you telling me that the music of any of these string-pluckers moves you in any shape or form? cos by god, u surely are from a parallel universe – mein godt, dood dood, the dodo got more life in it than these perfidious palookas …

  • 322.cab: Reply to this comment

    the guitar or violin dont do it for me, string-plucking is overrated, if you into the instrumental stuff surely its the piano that is the most beautiful sounding instrument.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4FN_DOpSk

  • 323.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-320: Pipe down, skop, this is your music education not ours. There will be no more Cultural Studies video links from you.

    Here’s a lady that sings the socks off anything you’ve posted tonight:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ZLSSnh6q4&feature=fvsr

    This is going back 23 years now. And the Talking Heads track was almost 30 years back. So you see, I’m trying to bridge the gap between us.

  • 324.cab: Reply to this comment

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXl4y6D-QI

    you talk of timeless, well you dont get much more timeless then that, long before The Revolution, but far far more poignant.

  • 325.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-316: you still up your fuckadilly fanny with your psychoanalytical garbage about pseudo punk eyed precocious innuendo’s .. wtf is ‘exotic’ ? just because your fucked up ears are CLOSED to true clear unadulterated SOUND.. don’t mean others gotta be fucked up to hell the same way you are… moron..

    here see if you can HEAR anything coming through there.. stupendous precocious idiot…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgQBlPgdzY0&feature=related

  • 326.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    @cab(cab)-322: Damn straight, the piano is magic. Different genre altogether, but here is a young man at the very peak what is possible on this instrument.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0U73NRSIkw

  • 327.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment

    piano is way overrated

    this is where its AT

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNZL7GkqeRI&feature=related

  • 328.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-327: Piano is overrated? Are you a complete fuckn ******?

  • 329.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment

    you can have your wishy washy Sinead O’Connor

    this is my kinda chicky

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djuu9uvyBNs

  • 330.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-329: I can understand why. You two must be around the same age.

  • 331.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment

    you as wishy washy as the kak clap trap music you listen to dumb little Pretorianse white boy

    here catch another whiff of some REAL soul sound…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7q72KvPs7o&feature=related

  • 332.cab: Reply to this comment

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pRlUOVcuGY

    The Last Word

  • 333.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment

    you wanna listen some piano.. only place piano is any good is when you mix it up like this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=BqEXF7gcfpQ

  • 334.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    @cab(cab)-332: Jeez, that puts this issue to bed.

  • 335.cab: Reply to this comment

    that clair de lune is absolutely beautiful – u gotta be a martian if you not moved by that.

    a moment of genius, umatched … until the Blesbok came along.

  • 336.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    Let’s end it with some real rock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlNhD0oS5pk&ob=av2e

    Hammer of the gods.

  • 337.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    Not another vid of that mammy from the 40s either. One was one too many.

  • 338.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment

    I heard Zeppelin’s immigrant song in 1970 already way before you were even conceived.. if anything is superficial precocious non evolved music.. that Brit rockaby baby punk rock music is it…

    if anyone is overrated Zeppelin and those pseudo serenade pseuds are it…

    I bought my first Zeppelin album at 15 -16 years of age.. in 1968 – 69 so I should know wtf I’m talking about…

    shows how much true music appreciation you moron got, rating Zeppelin above Santana..

  • 339.cab: Reply to this comment

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-334:
    op die vlerke van n spierwit duif.
    fokn hell wat ‘n treffer.

    ou doosie’s mind made up, forget it, night night.

  • 340.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    Listen and learn, old timer. Before it’s too late for you.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXAaKALfmWA&feature=related

  • 341.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    @cab(cab)-339: Nag cab. Sweef soos ‘n arend.

  • 342.charo: Reply to this comment

    @>^..^< katman(katman)-340:

    reminds me a bit of the moody blues.

    as far a guitar pickers go, old seasick steve is fine for me.

  • 343.>^..^< katman: Reply to this comment

    @charo(charo)-342: Few people can hold a large stage like Radiohead do. That track was from their 95 release The Bends – my favourite RH album. As is this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KglFXn0fg9M&feature=related

  • 344.bryce_in_oz: Reply to this comment

    @rangerman(rangerman)-277: @rangerman(rangerman)-302:

    That’s a huge Queenie whether on lure or spear… well done… shite eating though…

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