Province power into play-offs

Province power into play-offs

13 Oct 2012

SIMON BORCHARDT saw Western Province thrash the Free State Cheetahs 36-15 at Newlands to set up a Currie Cup semi-final against the Golden Lions at Ellis Park.

The hosts had a simple objective coming into this match – win to get into the play-offs and remove the possibility of having to play two promotion-relegation matches against the EP Kings (which the last-placed Cheetahs will now almost certainly have to do).

WP welcomed back seven Springboks and Free State two, which became one on the 23-minute mark when tighthead prop Coenie Oosthuizen left the field with what appeared to be a back or neck injury.

Province’s first two tries were both scored by Boks, with Jean de Villiers diving over in the right-hand corner after a clever chip kick from Gerhard van den Heever had been collected by Nick Groom 10 phases earlier, while Andries Bekker was perhaps lucky to get the green light from the TMO after he seemed to lose the ball over the line.

When flanker Deon Fourie was driven over from a rolling maul just before half-time, the hosts were out to a 22-3 lead. WP coach Allister Coetzee clearly thought the win was in the bag as he substituted Bekker soon after.

Province added another two tries in the third quarter, though Fourie and No 8 Duane Vermeulen, before flanker Francois Uys and replacement back Philip Snyman scored for the Cheetahs in the final five minutes to repair some of the damage to their points difference (as far as the log is concerned).


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  • 51.mikeybrass: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:51 pm

    We need to keep up the strong pack showing and a decisive moving backline in the second half.

    Perhaps pull off our Boks around the 60 min mark.

  • 52.suffer_guy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:51 pm

    Rhule looking like a habana of a season ago on a bad day… Where is transformation?

  • 53.Guns: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:52 pm

    @stormersboy-35:
    Hes been very good. Best 6 in SA? Ye maybe considering Brussow, Cotzee, Kolisi all not been playing in CC as well as guys like Flow blaying abroad, not the greatest of opposition.

  • 54.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:52 pm

    @katman-45: Seems like a travesty in this case, true, even if technically correct.

  • 55.W.P: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:53 pm

    Kitshoff killed Coenie dead @ scrumtime. It was actually Coenie’s attempted tackle on Etsebeth when he came on a standoff where he got injured.

  • 56.mikeybrass: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:54 pm

    @Guns-53: Marcel plays 7 for the Sharks. Agree that 6 is Flow’s best position.

  • 57.Petri: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:54 pm

    “Falling in the hole” is a new rule?

  • 58.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:54 pm

    @Guns-53: So are you agreeing with me then?? :)

  • 59.carol: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:56 pm

    22 – 3 at half time

    Is this a ‘Stormer’ of a game?

    Perhaps not!

  • 60.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:57 pm

    @Petri-57: its a cape thing…

  • 61.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 17:58 pm

    @carol-59: Yeah we are not even missing Monty! :)

  • 62.Guns: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:00 pm

    @mikeybrass-56: Yes thats right.I think he did play 6 a few times though at the start of the season but his actual play def more like a 7/8. Flow def a 6 then again he does pretty much the same Job for Bath as a 6 just wearing 7…

  • 63.carol: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:01 pm

    @stormersboy-61:
    Unlike me!

    Where is he these days?

  • 64.Guns: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:02 pm

    @stormersboy-58: Yes.. ;)
    WTF ever happened to klein Stegman ?

  • 65.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:02 pm

    Guns you confusing me

  • 66.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:02 pm

    @carol-63: Hiyas Carol. All good your side?

  • 67.Dwarslat: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:05 pm

    Etsebeth drilled Bismarck and Coenie. Eben twice the enforcer Bakkies was.
    My vote for player of the year.

  • 68.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:05 pm

    @carol-63: He’s around.

    @Guns-64: ja I think he’s been injured several times this year. Not sure where he is in terms of fitness at the moment.

    Still a good player.

  • 69.katman: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:07 pm

    I hate to be one of THOSE killjoys, but I can’t help feeling the same about WP as I do about the ABs when it comes to favouritism. It’s not an evil conspiracy – no one called a meeting and decided on a plan. But they’ve been talked up in the media for just about a century as the darlings of SA rugby, much as the ABs in world rugby. Each player has this crafted media persona with nicknames and off the pitch interest stories. The commentators get sucked into this mess too, creaming their chinos at everything that Jean or Schalla or Bekker does. And sadly, so do the refs and TMOs. Their latest crush is Deon Fourie, and his “revelation” at 6. All this means is that they make him this self-fulfilling prophecy, in that he gets granted the leeway at ruck time to excel the way everyone wants him to. Just as McCaw is. It really doesn’t sit well, and is the reason why it’s so easy to dislike teams like WP and the ABs.

  • 70.carol: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:08 pm

    @trupisero-66:
    Hi Trupsi
    Excellent here thanks. How are you and yours?

  • 71.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:09 pm

    @katman-69: Come over to the fun side of the Island fella.

    You”ll never want to go back ;)

    You can have your own nickname.

  • 72.W.P: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:09 pm

    OCO STFU

  • 73.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:11 pm

    Eben treating Van Der Walt like a rag doll.

    Superb.

  • 74.carol: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:11 pm

    @stormersboy-68:

    Well if you see Percival Colin Montgomery in any of the Camps Bay Coffee Shops or running about with his surfboard please tell him that Carol from England is probably coming over again in March and THIS TIME HE HAD BETTER FLIPPING WELL TAKE ME OUT FOR A BEER !!! :-)

    Do I have to beg?

  • 75.katman: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:12 pm

    @stormersboy-71: I just think of that fcken Newlands stadium announcer, and that pretty much sums up how I feel about Cape rugby. It feels like one big Paarl Gym old boys club, where everyone’s dad has a wine farm and everyone’s mom has her hair done twice a week. No thanks.

  • 76.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:12 pm

    @katman-69: Um……did you see that hyped up try that just got scored!?

    :D

    :D

  • 77.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:13 pm

    Good try by Fourie, I aint a fan of his but he is having a very good game

  • 78.W.P: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:13 pm

    Fourie again. Best openside in SA by a countrymile! Gonna miss him!

  • 79.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:14 pm

    @W.P-78: No he aint, Brussow is

  • 80.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:14 pm

    cheetahs facing possible relegation to the first division, yet will contest super rugby next year.

    lions, reigning cc champs, likely to be cc premiere division champs or second placed team this year, but will not be contesting super rugby next year.

    strange day indeed….

    and it will only get stranger, with the kings in the super mix from next year.

    this has all the ingredients for what could be a kickass local soap opera ala the wild.

    working titie: The Game

    ‘like conversions flying through the uprights, so are the days of our lives.’…

    *copyright held and any use only with express permission of owner* :grin:

  • 81.sharks_lover: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:14 pm

    To be honest Cheetahs plain rubbish at the moment

  • 82.kaksioek: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm

    At this point I would like to remind Skop that I told him Fourie was a better 6 than a 2.

  • 83.katman: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm

    @stormersboy-76: Hey, he’s not a bad player, and that was a well worked try. But I can pretty much guarantee you that half the steals he makes at the rucks would have been blown up up as penalties for the other team if he was a less fashionable loosie from, say, Kimberley. Ditto for McCaw’s ruck success.

  • 84.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm

    @carol-74: I’ll pas it on Carol.

    I would say however that sometimes one is disappointed when one meets one’s heroes, if you know what I mean…..

    It’s often better to admire the legend than the actual reality. ;)

  • 85.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm

    @carol-70: All good thanks. Not really looking forward to my annual trek to London in December – time that could rather be spent on a beach in Moz :)

  • 86.Treehugger: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm

    WP is really walking all over Free State. Did not expect this, thought it was going to be a nailbiter.

  • 87.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:15 pm

    Sigh. Eben. Close up. Breathless.

  • 88.kaksioek: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:16 pm

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-80: :lol:

  • 89.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:17 pm

    @katman-83: Ja I’m just pushing your buttons.

    I’d still pick Kolisi ahead of him in a fit back row of Vermeulen, Elstadt and Kolisi.

  • 90.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:18 pm

    OCO is becoming a one-post legend in his own lifetime

  • 91.carol: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:20 pm

    @stormersboy-84:
    It is a risk I am prepared to take! :-)

  • 92.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:20 pm

    @Dawn-87: ja, think he’s tired ;)

  • 93.carol: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:21 pm

    @trupisero-85:

    London in winter….Are you mad?

  • 94.W.P: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:21 pm

    @ SL : Yeah I’m sure he is – he hasn’t played half the games. Fourie owned him the last time they played. Its hard to admit isn’t it lol

  • 95.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:22 pm

    @Treehugger-86: The WP pack is formidable with the returning Boks, No weaknesses anywhere.

    Their dominance isn’t at all surprising.

    The cheetahs have only had to give up two players, we had to give up 8 for some weeks.

  • 96.carol: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:22 pm

    @Treehugger-86:
    Huggs, how are the critters?

  • 97.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:22 pm

    @katman-69:
    hehe
    this is mostly true but the obvious point of major departure between the ab’s and wp is that wp do not have the wherewithal to cheat their way to success.

    @stormersboy-71:
    katters..?.. katerjak..?. katjie..?.

  • 98.carol: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:23 pm

    @Dawn-87:

    Are you having a ‘moment’?

  • 99.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:24 pm

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-97: :)

    We’ll let him choose, we’re democratic like that :)

  • 100.trupisero: Reply to this comment
    13 Oct 2012, 18:26 pm

    @carol-93: not by choice I assure you! Company annual awards evening at Grosvenor House which I can’t escape.

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