Bash resumes pivotal role
13 Mar 2012
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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13 Mar 2012, 16:41 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-96:
yeah… the boss sang for the working man… and woman and family…
yeah… like mellencamp too… you know he wanted to emulate david bowie…? true story…
thing is… like with rugby players… there’s no need to trash one to promote the other…
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-99:
skop…
springsteen has played with orbison, dylan, young and countless others… they all rate him…
i’m sure bruce won’t lose any sleep if you don’t…
who’ve you played with…?
13 Mar 2012, 16:43 pm
Springsteen ain’t fit to tie Cocker or Santana’s boot laces and he knows it only too well that why he knows his place in the hierarchy and only does whats safe…
Springsteen is the American hero next door… a modern version of Jim Morrison only nowhere near as ‘out there’
If middle of the road rock and roll is your bag then Springsteen is your boy next door..
If its real music you wanna get your teeth into.. then you got some ways to go before you hit the true tone level of where genius meets the stage and hits the target at the bulls eye core.
13 Mar 2012, 16:44 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-93:
have you heard Zuma Junior’s cover of Fortunate Son?
sung to the tune of Mshiniwam?
Interesting dynamic.
13 Mar 2012, 16:46 pm
@ufo(ufo)-101:
fuckadillyniknak plays mostly with himself.
13 Mar 2012, 16:46 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-104:
13 Mar 2012, 16:51 pm
Santana, Morrison, Cocker, Dylan, Hendrix, Stills, Young, …
lets leave it at that else I string the page full of names…
these are leaders and boss men
Bruce just a nice good middle American down to earth bloke that can sling a guitar round his neck and belt out a tune for the man who ain’t got ears to hear what true genius is or is not…
Even Johannes Kerkorrel had far more genius running through his brain and veins than Bruce.. so JK = Boss man.. Bruce = cowboy on the range.
13 Mar 2012, 16:52 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-102: For a man who knows so little you sure do a lot of talking.
Cocker is no legend. He’s a decent if one dimensional singer who never quite matched his Woodstock era, when everyone was too euphorically smashed to truly judge anyway.
And that includes you, old timer.
13 Mar 2012, 16:52 pm
@ufo(ufo)-95:
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-96:
I can only agree with both of you. Of course Bruce is no follower- he speaks to the mainly blue collar working man in their own language like nobody else in music ever did- Dylan is more poetry, a total different kettle of fish.
Check this lyrics from the track “Death of my hometown” on his latest album where he attacks the authorities whose policies and negligence stripped people of their worth and then also rallies those left behind. The song is performed in the manner of a US Civil War marching song, complete with precision drumming and penny whistle. It’s goose bumps stuff:
“Well, no cannonballs did fly, no rifles cut us down
No bombs fell from the sky, no blood soaked the ground
No powder flash blinded the eye, no deathly thunder sounded
But just as sure as the hand of God, they brought death to my hometown
They brought death to my hometown, boys
No shells ripped the evening sky, no cities burning down
No army stormed the shores for which we’d die, no dictators were crowned
I awoke from a quiet night, I never heard a sound
The marauders raided in the dark and brought death to my hometown, boys
Death to my hometown
They destroyed our families, factories, and they took our homes
They left our bodies on the plains, the vultures picked our bones
So listen up, my sonny boy, be ready for when they come
For they’ll be returning sure as the rising sun
Now get yourself a song to sing and sing it ’til you’re done
Yeah, sing it hard and sing it well
Send the robber barons straight to hell
The greedy thieves who came around
And ate the flesh of everything they found
Whose crimes have gone unpunished now
Who walk the streets as free men now
Ah, they brought death to our hometown, boys
Death to our hometown, boys
Death to our hometown, boys
Death to our hometown, whoa”
13 Mar 2012, 16:57 pm
Joe Cocker???????????
the guy who looks like a semi-pro darts player and whose best-known song was a Beatles cover?????????
Ahem, I think this discussion is closed.
There is a little boy who needs a lie down.
Cue GuntherGoebellsGobbledytwastick.
13 Mar 2012, 17:08 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-109: The very same. But Cocker sang at Woodstock, so he must be a legend. I mean, no new music of any worth came out after Woodstock. In fact, if it wasn’t produced in the 50s or 60s it is rubbish. Plus Cocker did that thing when he sang. That spaz-hand thing. Fcken genius. What does Springsteen do with his hand? Thought so.
13 Mar 2012, 17:18 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-110:
That was air guitar.
Fuckadilly’s favourite instrument.
That Cocker dude has the industrial quantities of recreational drugs taken in the 60′s and seventies to thank for his musical career.
Otherwise he would be running a chippy in Sheffield singing along to Radio 1.
13 Mar 2012, 17:22 pm
May I suggest you do a search on Youtube for ACDC+Steven Tyler, for a nice video showing Brian Johnson showing that manwoman from Aerosmith how its done. Quite embarrassing to see Stevie try to do Shook me all night Long in the presence of the real deal.
13 Mar 2012, 17:28 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-111: Ah, my bad. I thought he was trying to do the sound of one hand clapping.
But yes, he is little more than a global one-man-cover-band. Just about every chart success he had was a cover (at least 5 of them courtesy of Lennon and McCartney). But Skop will have you believe that he “felt” the songs more than anyone else.
Skop must check his tofu’s best before date.
13 Mar 2012, 17:31 pm
Tac
I did a search for Steven Tyler ACDC.
That **** can get fella fired.
13 Mar 2012, 17:33 pm
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-112: Nothing can be worse than Tyler butchering the American anthem. Which couldn’t have happened to a nicer nation.
Check it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnXWv8pFkmI
13 Mar 2012, 17:38 pm
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-112:
Steve Tyler is Mick Jagger’s sister.
13 Mar 2012, 17:41 pm
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-112: That’s awful. But not as bad as this duet. Kurt Darren trying hard to keep up with Eddy Grant. And failing miserably. But bonus points for the faux Caribbean accent that kept poking through.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azu4JqNcAUQ
13 Mar 2012, 17:41 pm
@the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-114: hahahahahaha post of the day.
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-112: Brian Johnson and Steven Tyler are totally different and so it’s hard when one sings the other one’s song.
They’ve both earned their stripes, but I must say, I’m a fan of both.
13 Mar 2012, 17:43 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-116: How the hell did he beget such a pretty daughter?
13 Mar 2012, 17:45 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-119: Two Words:
Bebe Buelle.
13 Mar 2012, 17:47 pm
http://aliceonthemoon.tumblr.com/post/4613892625/bebe-buell-c-1970
Not very SFW, but illustrates my point.
13 Mar 2012, 17:48 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-120: Sweet lord, google just chucked up a pic of her starkers. Luckily the office is pretty deserted.
13 Mar 2012, 17:49 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-121: That very one. Damn she’s easy on the eye. Or she was back in 1970.
13 Mar 2012, 17:54 pm
Sheeshkebab Stormersboy you are going to disappoint Tac again.
He could hang his vellies on those nipples.
13 Mar 2012, 17:59 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-122:
Rockers and tennis players seem to get the sexiest girls
13 Mar 2012, 18:04 pm
Jukkel stukkel, she got around a bit. Her boyfriends included Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Steven Tyler, Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello, Jack Nicholson and a bunch more.
http://lovelyboheme.blogspot.com/2009/10/bebe-buell.html
13 Mar 2012, 18:04 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-118:
True, it is not anyone who can do a cover properly-and people hardly ever agree on whether it was done good or bad.
Check this one of Mellencamp doing Springsteen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gww1opBRxU&NR=1
I think it is great- apparently Bruce (although he applauded politely) hated it.
Eddie Vedder does very good covers imo- sometimes much better than the original.
13 Mar 2012, 18:10 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-127: I’m a big Eddie Vedder fan. There’s an excellent Youtube clip of him playing ‘Society” with Johnny Depp playing accoustic with him. Worth a watch.
13 Mar 2012, 18:11 pm
She wouldn’t have been much good to anyone else after Iggy Pop got hold of her.
That guy is an animal.
13 Mar 2012, 18:12 pm
Pop goes the beaver.
13 Mar 2012, 18:12 pm
Weasel. I meant weasel.
13 Mar 2012, 18:14 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-122: Well now you know where Liv got her looks from. Isn’t genetics strange??
She’s pretty like her mom, but definitely resembles her dad.
Either way, she’s certainly one of the prettier rocker daughters.
13 Mar 2012, 18:15 pm
It is a sad day in WP rugby when they look forward to the return of a limited flyhalf.
Love you Peter, but its the truth.
13 Mar 2012, 18:17 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-127: Interesting interpretation. Not my favourite but then what do I know?
13 Mar 2012, 18:18 pm
@PissAnt(PissAnt)-133: What would your answer be?
Burton?
13 Mar 2012, 18:20 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-135:
Nope, he is the best they got – which is even more sad.
13 Mar 2012, 18:23 pm
Don’t worry PissAnt. Bash will probably alternate at flyhalf with Brock.
13 Mar 2012, 18:25 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-137:
He has to in the absence of Schalk!
13 Mar 2012, 18:26 pm
@PissAnt(PissAnt)-133:
and the congregation said…
Amen Brother Pissant..!
13 Mar 2012, 18:27 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-137:
if we’re kicking out of defense brok HAS to take the kicks…!!
13 Mar 2012, 18:28 pm
Long ago and far away in a small fishing village on the edge of the Great Sea… perched high in his lighthouse built on a rugged rocky point, huffing and puffing on his own importance, sat the lighthouse keeper… known as Skop.
Skop guided the fishermen in their fishing boats safely passed the dangerous rocky shore into the sanctuary of The Cove.
The fishermen looked up to Skop, literally and figuratively, for guidance along the rocky shore…
Skop, likewise, looked down on the fishermen…
Skop knew the fishermen needed him as long as he shouted directions from the top of the lighthouse and shone a beacon for them at night…
Skop never came down from the lighthouse…
Some of the fishermen used to shout and say… “Hey Skop, you should join us on a voyage sometime… we see amazing things…!”
“There’s nothing to see…” responded Skop. “I can see further over the sea than all of you. I live in the highest building and have the brightest light in the village of The Cove… I have to guide you simple folk passed these dangerous rocks… I can see you more than all of you… I can see all the way to the horizon… there is nothing else to see…”
“But seriously Skop… when we go over the horizon there’s stuff that’ll blow your mind…”
“Don’t be stupidruntingfckinbitchinidioticcntingarsehole wannebe lighthouse keepers… no way you can see further than me in your pifflingfckinstupidlowclasswoodenkiddyboats than I can see from the top of my shiny bright lighthouse… you fckinmoronarsewipes…”
“Really Skop… We may be simple fishing folk and not lighthouse keepers… but we’ve seen this with our own eyes… they have planes and cars and electric guitars and ipods…”
“You know nothing, you goodfornothingimbecilicignoramusanuslickerfools… you’re nothing but stupididiotfollowers who have to go where the wind takes you… not like me who doesn’t have to follow because I’m elevated above you all and can just see everything from my lofty position…”
“Jaaaaaaa Skop…” the fishermen chorused… “if you say so… but we’ll keep visiting and seeing the cool stuff and having buckets of fun… Can we bring you back an ipod…”
“I don’t need imaginary things… I have seen the world from my lighthouse…
I know the meaning of life itself… what the fcknarseholhellruntincntnfucknhell do you know…?”
So the fishermen went about their lives…
And Skop waited for them to come back to The Cove…
13 Mar 2012, 18:30 pm
@PissAnt(PissAnt)-136: ja. Sadly I agree with you.
@>^..^< katman(katman)-137: The prophalf has some competition this year
13 Mar 2012, 18:31 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-128:
Thanks, that is a great clip- i like the way Johnny D holds the guitar- very cool.
There is also a u tube clip of Eddie V, Ben Harper and surfer Kelly Slater doing Indifference with Slater on lead vocals. Must be flipping daunting to play (vocals and rhythm) with such great muso’s even if you are the best surfer ever
13 Mar 2012, 18:31 pm
Don’t shoot me, but I prefer Brock at 9. His sniping runs ask some big questions.
13 Mar 2012, 18:35 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-144:
c’mon bud.. be fair…
brok is so quick he can play 9 and 10 at the same time…
passing to himself is no prob for brok…
13 Mar 2012, 18:42 pm
@stormersboy(stormersboy)-142:
Prophalf – kak funny.
13 Mar 2012, 18:54 pm
@Robzim(Robzim)-143:
Have a Pearl Jam MTV Unplugged DVD.
Definately one of my favourites.
13 Mar 2012, 19:04 pm
Brok can play halfprop, flyprop or fullprop. He is that versatile.
Propping up the Stormers backline, that guy.
13 Mar 2012, 19:10 pm
@Jeraldjay(Jeraldjay)-147:
Get Pearl Jam 20.
13 Mar 2012, 19:10 pm
Mmmmmmmm.
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