Stormers seal Jantjies loan

Stormers seal Jantjies loan

28 Oct 2012

WPRU president Thelo Wakefield confirmed that Lions flyhalf Elton Jantjies will join the Stormers on loan for Super Rugby next season.

While WP’s main focus will be on their first Currie Cup triumph in 11 years after beating the Sharks 25-18 in Saturday’s final, there is more good news for the men from Cape Town.

After weeks of negotiations, Jantjies’ loan deal was finalised late last week.

‘I approved his contract before the weekend,’ Wakefield told keo.co.za. ‘Elton’s inclusion will be a big boost for the team.’

With Demetri Catrakilis expected to join the Kings next season (Allister Coetzee aims to convince the flyhalf to stay in Cape Town) and Peter Grant only due back from Japan in February, Jantjies is expected to be given a starting berth during the earlier rounds of Super Rugby.

By Gareth Duncan


41 Comments

  • 1.Bagel: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 12:33 pm

    Best Rugby weekend ever..

  • 2.Caper: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 12:40 pm

    I’d start him above Bash. Elton’s the best attacking flyhalf in SA and if he gets a balance to his game that the conservative Stormer game plan will force onto him, he’ll really turn into the all-round flyhalf that the Stormers so desperately need.

  • 3.Gumboots: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 12:41 pm

    Expected but why so late?

  • 4.Bagel: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 12:44 pm

    @Gumboots-3: Who cares? We’ve got Elton!

    All we need is a decent 12..

  • 5.The Bill: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 12:52 pm

    Let Demetri go to the Kings. He needs to be playing before he needs to sitting at 3rd choice (if that with a few other okes floating around).

    We need to spread the talent so the cream rises to the top.

  • 6.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 12:52 pm

    http://m.lockerz.com/s/256652375

  • 7.Gumboots: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 12:54 pm

    @Bagel-4:

    Don’t get me wrong… I’m happy he is playing in Cape Town…

  • 8.RL: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:21 pm

    @Bagel-4: JDV is too old – Grant may just be the 12 you need.

  • 9.RL: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:27 pm

    Anyway well done on getting Jantjies AC. The damage he will do on the field surrounded by a dozen Boks – not having to play in a losing team. Elton 1 Lambster 0.

  • 10.grant10: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:36 pm

    Great news….just as important is the fact WP managed to retain Deon Fourie…Toulon were set to pounce so overall well done to the wp suits.

  • 11.Hondo: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:40 pm

    Hope the Stormers can keep him there ;)
    Hope his performance against the ABs and against WP last week will earn Jantjies a place on the Boks EOYT Squad, that would be nice to watch
    Mvovo too
    :-D

  • 12.assagai: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:46 pm

    Pity about all this Jantjies fanfare he is no match winner.. none at all.. I’d rather have kept Zorba and that is saying something chronic because WP’s best shot at FH would be Schreuder and then Joe Pietersen next.. Jantjies is just going to stuff up the works dammit and with all the primma donna garbage to go with it.

  • 13.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:49 pm

    @Gumboots-7:

    Elton was in the supersport studios prior to the big game yesterday. Arnold Geerts tried to prime him for a prediction either way. If he’d gone Province, i reckon it would’ve let the cat out the bag. But he couldn’t say “Saarks” either – you can’t exactly vote against your future employer.

  • 14.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:50 pm

    @assagai-12:

    You want to go with Schroeder after a 10 minute cameo performance. No man.

  • 15.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:51 pm

    @Hondo-11: how did taute go against the all blacks hondo? :lol:

  • 16.assagai: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:55 pm

    @I am a stormer-14: Yes I want to go with Schreuder it does NOT take rocket science to see with eyes wide open what works and what don’t..

    Schreuder at 10 is the way to go.. play Jantjies and we do NOT go ANYWHERE in ANY kind of hurry.. DUMB bloody purchase if ever I saw any.

    Schreuder and Pietersen is what WP need at 10 not Elton Jantjies… Groom at 9…back up Duvenhage.. don’t say I never warned you.. you gonna find out to your own dismay.

  • 17.mikeybrass: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:58 pm

    @Transformation-15: Don’t give inconvenient facts.

  • 18.silent_shadow: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 13:59 pm

    Terrific buy. Our backline could be special if we play him and Groom at 9/10.

    About Schreuder: Never rated him at 9 and always thought he’d be better at 10 or 15. Just struggles with basic scrumhalf duties – there’s a reason scrumhalves aren’t supposed to be tall, makes me wonder why he stayed there for so long. Very good runner with ball in hand though. Think he’s got a much better chance at making it if we do develop him at 10. His decision making has shown to be poor in the past though which I can see becoming an issue.

  • 19.mikeybrass: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:00 pm

    @assagai-16: Pieterson is a better fullback. Keep him there. We need him and Taute to rotate.

    I like Jantjies. We aren’t going to win anything with Grant. Jantjies and Schreuder are the way forward at flyhalf. De Allende, JdJ, Brache and du Plessis for centre pairings. JdV has been a faithful servant but he is not an attacking force anymore.

  • 20.mikeybrass: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:01 pm

    @silent_shadow-18: Nothing which can’t be sorted out with training and match practice.

  • 21.Jeraldjay: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:02 pm

    @assagai-16:
    Schalk Brits ahead of Deon Fourie for EOYT.

  • 22.silent_shadow: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:11 pm

    @mikeybrass-20: Disagree there. Good decision making isn’t something that can be trained. You have it or you don’t and I’ve seen quite a bit of bad option taking by Schreuder. It can improve with age and experience sure but you need to have the ability to read the game and situation. Who knows though, maybe he will become a revelation at 10. Seen a lot of him though and my prediction is that if we play him there that’s the area that he’ll struggle in.

  • 23.RL: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:15 pm

    @Transformation-15: Hondo was pissed off with that All White Kings team that played in Bloem – unlike you :lol:

  • 24.mikeybrass: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:19 pm

    @silent_shadow-22: The bad decision-making has come from his scrum-half play. He did enough in his cameo at flyhalf to suggest that is where he is best suited. Reading a situation comes with experience and some take longer than others to mature. He can be a good flyhalf provided he makes the right decision to switch positions.

  • 25.mikeybrass: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:20 pm

    @Jeraldjay-21: At hooker, yes. As cover, no. Fourie holds the edge as cover from the bench.

  • 26.mikeybrass: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:20 pm

    @Jeraldjay-21: Ah sorry, the team has been announced.

  • 27.assagai: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:21 pm

    Schreuder can be the next Henry Honibal but they can’t and won’t see it.. just like this dumb doos springbok coach who has left Deon Fourie out his touring party..

    Elton Jantjies just another prima donna flash in the pan who can run and kick and pass a little but is no world beating No.10

    Schreuder and Pietersen would be the better investment long term.

  • 28.silent_shadow: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:26 pm

    @mikeybrass-24: Decison making of 9 and 10 are very closely related. Choosing to kick a ball down the throat of the opposition when he has players on his outside as a scrumhalf doesn’t mean he’ll magically make the right decision when he’s got 10 on his back.

  • 29.assagai: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 14:30 pm

    Kirchner, Mapoe, Mvovo, Pietersen, Rhule, Hougaard, Taute, De Jongh, De Villiers, Jantjies, Lambie, M. Steyn, Vermaak, Pienaar

    A. Botha, Vermeulen, Alberts, Coetsee, Louw, Fl. Vd Merwe, Fr. Vd Merwe, Kruger, Etzebeth, JdP, Cilliers, Strauss, Chili, Brits, Steenkamp, CJ , Beast

    No Habana out to injury

    and no Deon Fourie

    No Jordaan either, or Groom.. but Vermaak, and Morne Steyn go along.

  • 30.papaown: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 16:31 pm

    @Grant, is Deon Fourie’s re-signing confirmed? Will improve Stormers/Provinces prospects 200% if that’s the case!

  • 31.papaown: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 16:36 pm

    @assagai-27: Pray tell who would you replace in the squad for Fourie, and try somehow to be objective?

  • 32.CharlesM: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 16:40 pm

    @papaown-30: 100% sealed!!
    ‘I approved his contract before the weekend,’ Wakefield told keo.co.za: How many letter I’s in “TEAM” Thelo: none !!! He likes to get all the glory !!

  • 33.suffer_guy: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 18:13 pm

    Wakefield is the cancer wp should get rid of

  • 34.mikeybrass: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 19:18 pm

    @silent_shadow-28: Shreuder’s height is unsuitable for a scrummy. He has a wider field vision from the position of a flyhalf, more room and different responsibilities. He has shown he isn’t a top scrumhalf and has shown glimpses of promise at flyhalf. I do not agree that stuffing up in one position means he will stuff up in another when he has shown that not to be the case.

  • 35.WP-Forever: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 20:34 pm

    Will the Stormers Super Rugby match-day side for 2013 look something like this?

    1. Steven Kitshoff
    2. Tiaan Liebenberg
    3. Frans Malherbe
    4. Eben Etzebeth
    5. Andries Bekker
    6. Siya Kolisi
    7. Rynard Elstadt
    8. Duanne Vermeulen
    9. Nic Groom
    10. Elton Jantjies
    11. Bryan Habana
    12. Peter Grant
    13. Juan de Jongh
    14. Gio Aplon
    15. Jaco Taute

    16. Deon Fourie
    17. Brok Harris
    18. De Kock Steenkamp
    19. Schalk Burger
    20. Louis Schreuder
    21. Gerhard van den Heever
    22. Joe Pietersen

  • 36.WP-Forever: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 20:35 pm

    @WP-Forever-35:

    12. is supposed to be Jean de Villiers/Peter Grant

  • 37.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    28 Oct 2012, 20:49 pm

    @WP-Forever-35:

    Pat Cilliers, de Allende, Carr, Ruaan Botha, Rhodes, Duvenhage, Armand and a few more are going to push hard for inclusion. The future looks very bright

  • 38.KeurboomPark: Reply to this comment
    29 Oct 2012, 00:48 am

    Schreuder is the future pivot for WP. At least we have back up in a key position.

  • 39.BrumbiesBoy: Reply to this comment
    29 Oct 2012, 07:45 am

    Huh, so now we know the real reason why the Mountain Goats voted against the Lions in the SR debacle.

    Snakes in the grass.

  • 40.garth: Reply to this comment
    29 Oct 2012, 09:31 am

    1. Steven Kitshoff
    2. Deon Fourie
    3. Frans Malherbe
    4. Rynard Elstadt
    5. Eben Etzebeth
    6. Siya Kolisi
    7. Schalk Burger
    8. Duanne Vermeulen
    9. Nic Groom
    10. Elton Jantjies
    11. Bryan Habana
    12. Jaco Taute
    13. Juan de Jongh
    14. Gio Aplon
    15. Joe Pietersen

  • 41.Rhys7: Reply to this comment
    29 Oct 2012, 11:08 am

    15 Jaco Taute
    14 Gio Aplon
    13 Juan De Jongh
    12 Jean de Villiers
    11 Bryan Habana
    10 Elton Jantjes
    9 Nic Groom
    8 Duane Veemeulen
    7 Schalk Burger
    6 Siya Kolisi
    5 Andries Bekker
    4 Eben Etzebeth
    3 Pat Cilliers
    2 Deon Fourie
    1 Steven Kitshoff

    16 Tiaan Liebenberg
    17 Francois Malherbe
    18 Rynhardt Elstadt
    19 Nizaam Carr
    20 Louis Schroeder
    21 Peter Grant
    22 Gerrhard Van Den Heever

    23 Scarra Ntubeni
    24 Deon Carstens
    25 Ruan Botha
    26 Michael Rhodes
    27 Dewaldt Duvenhage
    28 Joe Pietersen
    29 JP Du Plessis
    30 Marcel Brache

    31 Brok Harris
    32 De Kock Steenkamp
    33 Jebb Sinclair
    34 Gary Van Asegen
    35 Damien De Allende
    36 Tyrone Holmes
    37 JC Kritzinger
    38 Kurt Coleman

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