Meyer calls up Stormers
26 Apr 2012
Heyneke Meyer has named a 31-man squad for the third and final Springbok planning camp in Cape Town, which will only include Stormers players.
This is the final leg of Meyer’s first initiative as Bok coach, as he has already spent time with Cheetahs, Lions, Bulls and Sharks players at the first two planning camps over the past fortnight in Pretoria. Meyer will now spend time with a selected group of Stormers players in Cape Town from next Tuesday until Thursday.
The Stormers can afford to release their players as they enjoy a bye during the following weekend, but this camp will coincide with WP’s preparations for the Vodacom Cup quarter-finals. Meyer hopes a balance can be arranged.
‘We know that a number of these players will feature for WP in the Vodacom Cup quarter-finals next weekend, but we would like to work with them at some stage during next week. When they are needed for provincial duty they will, of course, attend those sessions,’ said Meyer. ‘The value of these camps can’t be underestimated. During the first two camps in Pretoria we not only had the opportunity to go through all our plays and game plans with the players, but we also had one-on-one talks with every single player in attendance and also assessed them medically.
‘The wealth of information we’ve built up on the best players in South Africa is invaluable. At the end of next week, we would’ve worked with more than 100 players and although only 22 can feature in the first Test against England, all of them know where they stand in the national set-up.’
Meyer also added that this camp will allow the Bok medical team to assess several players’ injury situations.
‘We know that guys like Schalk Burger, Jean de Villiers, Andries Bekker, Duane Vermeulen and Gio Aplon, to name but a few, have been struggling with injuries and there has been a lot of speculation about the seriousness of these injuries, but after next week we’ll have a better idea of where they are in terms of fitness levels.’
Third Springbok planning camp squad:
Forwards – Andries Bekker, Brok Harris, De Kock Steenkamp, Deon Carstens, Deon Fourie, Duane Vermeulen, Eben Etzebeth, Frans Malherbe, Nick Koster, Nizaam Carr, Quinn Roux, Rynhardt Elstadt, Schalk Burger, Siya Kolisi, Steven Kitshoff, Tiaan Liebenberg, Wicus Blaauw.
Backs – Burton Francis, Bryan Habana, Danie Poolman, Dewaldt Duvenhage, Gary van Aswegen, Gerhard van den Heever, Gio Aplon, Jean de Villiers, Joe Pietersen, Juan de Jongh, Louis Schreuder, Marcel Brache, Nick Groom, Peter Grant.
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26 Apr 2012, 10:26 am
Who is Nick Groom?
Hopefully the Stormers supporters will stop moaning now.
26 Apr 2012, 10:30 am
Have to give Heyneke kudos…
He is the first coach that I can remember who has gone around the country seeing virtually every player who has even an outside chance of being considered…
Well done to him…
Even though some reports on what he has said have concerned me… his actions speak a lot louder and clearer to me… so I’m still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and would suggest the wave of hysteria around the country says more about our own insecurities and biases than it says about meyer’s…
26 Apr 2012, 10:31 am
@Taahirah(Taahirah)-1: Groom is arguably the best all-round scrumhalf in WP. It’s baffling as to why he’s not been selected.
26 Apr 2012, 10:32 am
I like the concept of these camps.
Getting the players together early and instilling the culture Meyer wants the team to have is important.
The only downside is the view I have of an outsider looking in.
Doing this kind of thing piecemeal based on the availability of players may be good for the franchises, but will it work for the Bok’s long term.
You guys already suffer under the burden of hyper provincialism.
26 Apr 2012, 10:33 am
Would there be an argument for looking at a few players currently in the vodacom cup? I’m sure you can find from amongst the big unions and even the defending champions.
26 Apr 2012, 10:35 am
@Brads(Brads)-4:
Brads, I think the timing is largely an effort to see all the guys in the limited time available… stormers were overseas when he saw the bulls, who will be overseas when the stormers come back… so he’s had little choice but to do it this way…
nothing negative about it at all… IMO…
26 Apr 2012, 10:35 am
So this is just a stormers traning session with a new coach. It’s bound to confuse the **** out of them. They’ll be coached using a ball, which would be a completely unfamiliar concept.
26 Apr 2012, 10:37 am
@pompies2(pompies2)-7:
26 Apr 2012, 10:38 am
@pompies2(pompies2)-3: heynek calls up brache but no jp du plessis,
tl tl tl
26 Apr 2012, 10:40 am
@pompies2(pompies2)-7: don’t worry, fleckie will undo all of heyneke’s words within 5 minutes of his “attacking sessions”
26 Apr 2012, 10:41 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-9: Riddle me that. Moerse funny. Heyneke’s probably planning on playing tiddleywinks.
26 Apr 2012, 10:43 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-10: Fleckie is a wily old silver fox. He’s got to have the gift of the gab if he has managed to go on rugby tours so many times under the pretenses of being a back-line coach.
26 Apr 2012, 10:44 am
@pompies2(pompies2)-3:
Agree, Groom needs to go and speak to Danie Poolman to find out what a person must do to get into Alister’s good books.
He is far more abrasive and dangerous on the attack than Dewald – he reminds me a bit of a fit Ricky January – Dewald and Louis Schreuder do however have better kincking games than him at this stage and it probably fits in better with the current gameplan.
26 Apr 2012, 10:48 am
@pompies2(pompies2)-12: he picks up the tabs
26 Apr 2012, 10:51 am
@Robzim(Robzim)-13: It’s these types of decisions that will be the difference between winning the competition and losing it.
Groom trumps both Duvenhage and Schreuder in all facets. Duvenhage’s kicking and game management poor and Schreuder, while he possesses good allround skills, is just behind Groom.
26 Apr 2012, 10:53 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-14: Lol. Perhaps he’s the chairman of the entertainment committee. Every tour needs one. Through in Bobby and you have a right old p!ss up.
26 Apr 2012, 10:53 am
good move, getting as many stormers players at the same time to tell them,
“look okes, you’ve got no chance”
26 Apr 2012, 10:58 am
Where are they having the Breezers camp?
Milnerton Medi-Clinic?
26 Apr 2012, 11:02 am
How can Brache or Poolman go to these camps, but not Meyer Bosman?
26 Apr 2012, 11:06 am
@willievz(willievz)-19: turnstile is kak
26 Apr 2012, 11:07 am
@pompies2(pompies2)-16: through = throw
26 Apr 2012, 11:11 am
@Brigadier Van Zyl(Brigadier Van Zyl)-17:
The way I see it is that Heyneke wasn’t that impressed with what he saw at the first 2 camps.
26 Apr 2012, 11:14 am
This meeting of Cape men must conclude before sunset
26 Apr 2012, 11:14 am
When’s he having the camp with the King’s players?
26 Apr 2012, 11:14 am
@the artist formerly known as gunther(gunther)-18: Caprice in Camps Bay. Isn’t that where all the pooftas go? I’m sure the real G10 will know. G10, if you reading, how you doing? Would bee nice to have you back on the forum again.
26 Apr 2012, 11:19 am
Western Cape is a culture shock for ol’ Heyneke
26 Apr 2012, 11:22 am
Wonder what Divvy is thinking while reading about Meyer’s Bok camps with all the players.
“Dope! Why didn’t I think of that!”
And then when Meyer brings in his next innovation:
“And that!”
And so on and so forth…
26 Apr 2012, 11:23 am
@willievz(willievz)-19: perhaps a bondage, ag sorry, a bonding session at Bronx?
26 Apr 2012, 11:24 am
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-27: Actually Divvie did have a few big training camps. I recall 1 in Somerset West.
26 Apr 2012, 11:31 am
@viewer(viewer)-26: I am sure Heyneke is originally from the Cape? or am I getting confused again ?
26 Apr 2012, 11:33 am
@Tacitus(Deucalion)-27:
Yeesh you nasty today
Is it cos the Bulls have a bye
26 Apr 2012, 11:33 am
@pompies2(pompies2)-28: I doubt willie would know Bronx.
26 Apr 2012, 11:34 am
@viewer(viewer)-23: hahahahahaha
26 Apr 2012, 11:35 am
Who’s first receiver as we speak?
26 Apr 2012, 11:35 am
@Sharksgirl(Sharksgirl)-30:
born in nelspruit…
26 Apr 2012, 11:36 am
varsity in pretoria
26 Apr 2012, 11:39 am
@ufo(ufo)-35: @ufo(ufo)-36: Thank you UFO I thought I read somewhere that HM was from WC, I am obviously confusing myself, not uncommon with me I am afraid
26 Apr 2012, 11:40 am
@viewer(viewer)-26: could be the reason he left his job as Stormers forwards coach…
26 Apr 2012, 11:40 am
Not a ball in sight. . .
26 Apr 2012, 11:42 am
@Sharksgirl(Sharksgirl)-37:
don’t sweat it… common misconception… cause he started his coaching career with the swd eagles…
26 Apr 2012, 11:43 am
@Sharksgirl(Sharksgirl)-37: he coached SWD and then was roped in as forwards for the Stormers and advised my Mallett to apply for the Bulls job.
in an interview on Supersport he said he encountered a bit of resistance in blue bulls country when he first got there as everyone had only heard about his relative successes in the South/Western Cape and the Mallett endorsements.
26 Apr 2012, 11:44 am
@Taahirah(Taahirah)-32: You used willie and bronx in the same sentence. bwahahahaha. This is not in reference to WillieVZ
26 Apr 2012, 11:46 am
I wonder what heyneke told spies in the one on one last week and what rating his got. Surely they must see he’s all show and no go.
26 Apr 2012, 11:46 am
@Sharksgirl(Sharksgirl)-37: Okai found it!!! Not so daft after all
in 1999 he was assistant coach for the DHL Stormers! Thought he had a tie to the Stormers before the Bulls!!!
26 Apr 2012, 11:47 am
Bring out the KY jelly
26 Apr 2012, 11:47 am
@pompies2(pompies2)-42:
You’re on fire today.
26 Apr 2012, 11:49 am
@Transformation(Transformation)-41:
thank you Transie, I had read it somewhere and I thought I was going senile (you know comes with age 
) So searched his biography and found it. Should have saved some time and waited a few moments 
26 Apr 2012, 11:49 am
England coach Stuart Lancaster is roping in Mike Catt as his backs coach. He is working to get Wayne Smith in as his longterm choice. Who is our backs coach again?
26 Apr 2012, 11:50 am
@IAAS(I am a stormer)-22:
or else, after what he has seen in the first 2 camps….he just know these okes have no chance.
26 Apr 2012, 11:52 am
@hensopper1(hensopper1)-48: It’s easy to Judge Catt’s coaching ability. Check the teams position he’s currently coaching.
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