Aplon, Duane to miss Force clash

Aplon, Duane to miss Force clash

23 Apr 2012

Gio Aplon and Duane Vermeulen have been ruled out of the Stormers’ final tour match with injury.

Aplon (hamstring) and Vermeulen (knee) are both on the way home to South Africa and will take no further part in the tour. While coach Allister Coetzee is likely to replace Aplon with Gerhard van den Heever, Vermeulen’s injury will have a greater impact on the team make-up.

Coetzee has the option of playing Nick Koster at No 8 but the injury to Vermeulen means that the Stormers have lost yet another captain. Andries Bekker is still with the Stormers’ touring group, and is believed he will be fit enough to take the reins. Otherwise Coetzee may turn to hooker Tiaan Liebenberg to fill the void.

Aplon is expected to be fit for the 12 May match against the Cheetahs, while Vermeulen will see a specialist in Cape Town before a time frame on his return is made public. The Stormers have confirmed that flank Don Armand and centre Berton Klaasen have flown to Perth as injury cover.

Eben Etzebeth (shoulder) is being managed and a call on his availability will only be made on Friday.


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  • 51.nama1: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 13:13 pm

    @Transformation(Transformation)-48:
    That’s who I’m worried about, Transie…. Pockock!!!

    This is not going to be as easy for the Stormers as some might believe. The last time we played there (2010), they beat us…. and that was with a team that made the final of the S14.

  • 52.Hondo: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 14:29 pm

    @nama1(nama1)-38:
    Walsh was not goint to taint his new status as a Test Referee, so it made a fair contest against the Reds
    But with another referee at Perth it will be a different game, just anybody can do the Jonker

  • 53.Hondo: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 14:33 pm

    No Bekker and Vermulen is tough, than SB is out while the Stormers best loose forward ditched them this season, the cupboard seemed empty
    With the playoffs in mind, the Stormers are better rest some of their locks and flankers

  • 54.ufo: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 14:36 pm

    see o’connor has been sidelined with a lacerated liver…!! :shock:

    damn…

    hope he recovers well and quickly..

  • 55.ufo: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 14:40 pm

    how hard do you have to get hit to rip your liver…?

    damn… rugby these days is not for sissies…

  • 56.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 15:03 pm

    This team will beat Force

    Kitshoff, Fourie, Malherbe
    Elstadt, Bekker
    Carr, Kolisi
    Koster

    Duvenhage (c), Grant
    Habana, JdJ, J Du Plessis, Vd Heever
    Pietersen

    Harris, Liebenberg, Steenkamp, Armand, Shreuder, Poolman, Francis

  • 57.houston, we have a problem...: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 15:25 pm

    @ufo(ufo)-55:

    ja, but how hard do you have to drink to lacerate your liver..?..

    rugby drinking is not for sissies…

  • 58.ufo: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 15:30 pm

    @houston, we have a problem…(i_love_u_bakkiesbotha)-57:

    :lol:

    wasn’t richard bands one of those…? who drank and drove (on a rugby field over obstacles such as Dr Richard…)

    heard stories of him coming off at half time and having a shot or two…?

  • 59.skyewalker: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 17:34 pm

    @nama1(nama1)-51:
    Yeah,Stormers may have one foot on the plane back home come saturday,AC will have to guard against complacency.

  • 60.brains_trust: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 19:49 pm

    I love the the crack of Dawn

  • 61.brains_trust: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 20:27 pm

    My naam is tommy en ek gee nie n f@k ommi (what Tommy LaubScher wld say before he downed a half jack of brandy)

  • 62.brains_trust: Reply to this comment
    23 Apr 2012, 20:28 pm

    My naam is tommy en ek gee nie n f•k ommi (what Tommy LaubScher wld say before he downed a half jack of brandy)

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