Louw escapes serious injury
30 Oct 2012
Scans have revealed that Francois Louw’s neck injury is not as serious as initially feared and the flanker will be available for the Springboks’ tour to Europe.
Louw hurt his neck in a Premiership game over the weekend, and Bath coach Gary Gold said afterwards that the injury looked serious. However, following scans and tests on Monday, Gold told Beeld that the injury has nothing to do with the flanker’s veterbrae, and Louw just has a stiff neck.
Gold suggested that Louw could even be utilised in Bath’s Premiership match against London Welsh this Sunday. It bodes well for the Boks’ tour, which starts next week with a fixture against Ireland in Dublin.
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30 Oct 2012, 19:29 pm
stats show nothing.. its what happens between the 4 white lines which count
stats mean absolutely zilch.. all anyone gotta do is open their eyes and see the reality for the trees.. simple as pie.
Fourie is a better hooker than every other hooker in the country barring Bismark.. and that is only on a good day for Bismark otherwise they are about on par… and Chili comes in a close third.. better than Strauss any day of the week.
Burden is another Schalk Brits type flash Gordon wannabe.. good at CC level open running rugby where the opposition defenses aren’t functioning.. chuck Burden in with Fourie on a tight international level stage and Burden disappears like the show pony he is… as Scarra Ntubeni showed him up in a full scale war of attrition CC final with the top two teams at each others throats for 80 minutes..
In those conditions Kyle Cooper showed that he;s a better more robust hooker at the trenches than Burden will ever be.
30 Oct 2012, 19:48 pm
Burden was shocking in the final, missed his jumpers on numerous occasions.
30 Oct 2012, 19:50 pm
With Bismark/Fourie in the same team as Flouw every team including the AB will struggle against us at the breakdown. Throw in Habs and Vermuelen who are also good at pilfering…..we will be pretty good at slowing down opposition ball.
30 Oct 2012, 20:21 pm
@assagai-101:
You cannot ignore the fact (proven many times over a few years) that Deon is a very below average thrower of he ball into the lineouts (I doubt whether he will ever get it right) and for that reason he will probably NEVER be selected to play international rugby as a hooker.
For the Stormers, Scarra is the future and should alternate with Liebenberg as hooker next year- Fourie should either start at no 6 flank or play off the bench covering hooker and loose forward.
Don’t get me wrong- I rate Fourie very highly as a player (and as a no-nonsense leader) but he has just farked up too many lineouts with his wayward throwing for me to ever have confidence again in him as a hooker.
30 Oct 2012, 20:36 pm
@Robzim-104:
He also seems to suffer from “stage fright” when it comes to throwing into the lineouts in the sense that he usually misses his target during the most vital line-outs.I particularry remember one vital miss that upsets Andries Bekker so much that he nearly blew his top and had to be restrained by his teammates.
30 Oct 2012, 20:39 pm
@Robzim-104: you are wrong
Deon Fourie is the best hooker in the country alongside Bismark..
if you going to ‘rate’ a hooker on how he throws in the line out then you may as well start following darts or tiddlywinks
Deon Fourie is the best hooker in the country beside or alongside Bismark.. beside perhaps the toughest bust a gut player to ever have played rugby at provincial level in recent years.
If you are going to play Liebenberg over Fourie then you are going to lose more often than you win… proven enough times already
and if WP do NOT play Fourie at starting hooker, Ntubeni off bench then he may as well have gone to France because then you are not going to get the best out of him.
Deon Fourie should be Boks No.1 hooker in the team and the squad while Bismark is injured.. there is not another hooker anywhere in the country and close to him in terms of power to weight ratio and outright in your face tenacity.. not a single one anywhere.. Ntubeni will go places he got what it takes to be Fourie’s No.1 2IC.. not Liebenberg.
30 Oct 2012, 21:11 pm
Interesting debate,,,,
Hookers are very different from each other…..some suited for trenh warfare….some prefer being looser, etc….
Conditions and opposition need to be taken into account I would suppose….
Playing Aussies a Schalk Brits would probably be do well….tougher , tighter games maybe a Chillboy type….
For me personally……Bissy still reigns supreme…..
D Fourie has had an incredible season, but for sure needs to work on those lineout throws, but from a wp / stormers contaxt I would start him at 6 mostly anyway, he has been farken incredible…
30 Oct 2012, 21:29 pm
I was just at Dubanville Virgin Active and Gerhard Van Der Heever and Rynard Elstadt were there. It was quite and I got a chance to chat to them a bit. Really good guys, really humble. They are very disappointed that Deon didn’t crack the nod. Rynard brought it up, not me.
Rynard’s ribs are still ap roblem, he is going for a scan in a few weeks to see how it looks, the muscle was torn completely off the ribcage.
It didn’t seem to be holding him back from throwing some serious tin around though.
30 Oct 2012, 21:41 pm
@grant10-107: I know you are firmly in the 6 fetcher role and I haven’t always been of the same opinion, mostly because I felt that we didn’t have the right player to put in that position, but Deon has proved himself there this year and deserves a start next year at 6. Forget hooker, as you say Scarra is coming on very well. Deon can cover there as 3rd choice in case of injury but he needs to be backed at 6.
30 Oct 2012, 21:49 pm
@stormersboy-108: quite =quiet.
30 Oct 2012, 22:05 pm
Hi Champs! I tend to agree with Grant re deon, he proved himself to be a much better 6 flank than hooker. Problem is Siya, schalk… Just watched the Final again and kept rewinding the part where Juan gives Keagan Cullen a p@esklap-handoff. Beauty!
30 Oct 2012, 22:05 pm
Hi Champs! I tend to agree with Grant re deon, he proved himself to be a much better 6 flank than hooker. Problem is Siya, schalk… Just watched the Final again and kept rewatching the part where Juan gives Keagan Cullen a p@esklap-handoff. Beauty!
30 Oct 2012, 22:07 pm
@Slappes-111: Jammer meneer maar die bus is vol.
30 Oct 2012, 22:19 pm
@assagai-106: You sound like a teenage girl describing her bestest best ever boy band in the whole world. Fourie is a pale shadow of Schalk Brits – shouldn’t even be mentioned in the same sentence. And besides, what exactly is “the toughest player to have ever played… in recent years”? Wake up.
30 Oct 2012, 22:26 pm
Going to make popcorn. Don’t start without me.
30 Oct 2012, 22:41 pm
@stormersboy-115: Nah, couldn’t be bothered to educate the old man tonight. Got to be up early tomorrow. It’s pointless anyway as he only remembers what he’s seen in the last 7 days, which explains the total fcken schizo nature of his teams. Add to this the fact that he doesn’t believe in DSTV and therefore hasn’t seen Brits play in years, and you begin to see the futility of it all. So I bid you adieu.
30 Oct 2012, 23:02 pm
@stormersboy-113: YAWN.Getting very stale now.
30 Oct 2012, 23:18 pm
@stormersboy-108: Do we really have to know this or is it just to stroke your ego.I think you really have an over-inflated opinion of yourself.Domineering mother??
31 Oct 2012, 09:03 am
@assagai-101: Interesting that all coaches in the world use stats to see if the players actually performed , they even wear GPS monitors these days , and you recon the stats are useless.
Maybe you can teach the world coaches a thing or two, they are obviously stupid and you have the answers.
31 Oct 2012, 09:04 am
@Slappes-111: While you are rewinding , can you tell me why a penalty was not awarded for the scrum , just before this try ?
31 Oct 2012, 09:07 am
Evry farking thread some *** has gone off on how Deon Fourie should be in the Bok mix. Fark sakes the oke played a season ( not even a full one) on the flank and all of the sudden he is the new shining light. He will get creamed at international level.
31 Oct 2012, 09:11 am
@assagai-106: ‘Deon Fourie should be Boks No.1 hooker in the team and the squad while Bismark is injured.. there is not another hooker anywhere in the country and close to him in terms of power to weight ratio and outright in your face tenacity.. not a single one anywhere’
Your bullsh it to fact ratio is astonishing.
Your new poster boy….that is if you can fit the wing nut ears onto a poster…..is average at best and I am being very kind.
31 Oct 2012, 09:23 am
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-122: People look at players with emotion , Deon ‘s biggest problem , like Burden, is his line out throws , Bulls scored of that in many a game , remember Hougie’s try , when Fourie threw the ball way over them all in line out.
31 Oct 2012, 09:24 am
@capebull-123: In saying that , Fourie over Vermeulen any day.
31 Oct 2012, 09:40 am
@capebull-120: did you see duane making metres and pilfering ball?
31 Oct 2012, 11:08 am
@Transformation-125: What was it 3 meters ? I am sure he did not touch the ball whole first halve.
31 Oct 2012, 11:30 am
@KWAGGA ROBERTSE-122:
‘Your bullsh it to fact ratio is astonishing.’
31 Oct 2012, 11:49 am
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-127: I enjoyed that one too.
31 Oct 2012, 16:19 pm
Capebull – waar val jy uit? Vermeulen is head and shoulders above any other 8 in the country. Botha’s time will come but he’s a newbie. He’s Blue Bull connection with Meyer has ensured his place in the squad.
31 Oct 2012, 17:28 pm
@kwagga Robertse. Agree with your comment on his throwing, but if he gets more game time at Hooker it will improve alot! And secondly get your facts right!It was Tiaan who thru that ball in that lineout when Hougaard scored.
1 Nov 2012, 08:25 am
@W.P-129: As dit waar is , is ons Rugby in groot moeilikheid. Gaan kyk weer die cc final , hou Vermeulen dop , dan praat ons weer.
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