Grant crocked as Jantjies starts
20 Mar 2013
Peter Grant is out of Super Rugby for the next month and Springbok flyhalf Elton Jantjies will get extended game time.
Stormers coach Allister Coetzee has selected fit again Juan de Jongh for the first time this season and welcomes back Jaco Taute. The Lions import has missed the last two matches because of injury. Taute is in the match 22 but Joe Pietersen again starts at fullback.
Dewald Duvenhage’s strong kicking game has also been favoured as scrumhalf.
Stormers : 15 Joe Pietersen, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Juan de Jongh, 12 Jean de Villiers (c), 11 Gerhard van den Heever, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Rynhardt Elstadt, 6 Siya Kolisi, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 De Kock Steenkamp, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Tiaan Liebenberg, 1 Steven Kitshoff. Subs: 16 Deon Fourie, 17 Pat Cilliers, 18 Don Armand, 19 Nizaam Carr, 20 Nic Groom, 21 Damian de Allende, 22 Jaco Taute
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20 Mar 2013, 19:21 pm
Michael Rhodes, Brock Harris and Ruan Botha will turn out for the WP Vodacom team this weekend,=.
Team with article here:
http://www.rugby-talk.com/2013/03/vodacom-cup-harris-botha-rhodes-bolster-dhl-western-province/
20 Mar 2013, 19:24 pm
Wrong again Alister
Should have been
Jaco Taute
Damian De Allende
Jean De Villiers
Juan de Jongh
Gio Aplon
Joe Pietersen
Nic Groom
Duanne Vermeulen
Don Armand
Siya Kolisi
Andries Bekker
Rhynardt Elstadt
Pat Cilliers
Deon Fourie
Deon Carstens
Steven Kitchoff Tiaan Liebenberg De Kok Steenkamp Nizaam Carr Dewald Duvenhage Elton Jantjies
20 Mar 2013, 19:25 pm
7th bench man either tight head Frans Malherbe or wing Gerhard Vd Heever
20 Mar 2013, 19:29 pm
Or if was me would have played 5 man forward bench with full front row Kitchoff Liebenberg Malherbe Steenkamp Carr Duvenhage and Vd Merwe leave Jantjies out altogether.
20 Mar 2013, 19:33 pm
Playing straight into Jake’s hands
Proooblems looming here
Big No. 8 gonna go charging through No.10 channel all day long.
20 Mar 2013, 19:36 pm
Still Stormers got enough to take this Brumbies outfit notwithstanding the superior forward and backline drills of Fisher Smith Gregan and Larkham over Proudfoot Coetsee and Fleck.
If there any S.A. team can take Brumbies it’s Stormers and Jake knows this well.
20 Mar 2013, 20:13 pm
@skopdiekan-105:
So you’d play Pietersen there rather? Either way the loose forwards and centres are going to have to help. The key, as it usually is with rugby, will be the collisions. Got to stop them freeing up the arms in the tackles and make them commit players to rucks.
20 Mar 2013, 22:08 pm
DHL Stormers forwards Brok Harris, Ruan Botha and Michael Rhodes will bolster the DHL Western Province team in Friday evening’s Vodacom Cup, Round Three clash against the EP Kings in Port Elizabeth (19h00).
DHL WP will be chasing a win away from home against the Kings, the Men in Blue & White having gone down 23-24 in the dying seconds of last weekend’s encounter against the Sharks XV in Athlone.
“We have regrouped well after the disappointment of last week,” said WP head coach John Dobson.
“We had to take a good hard look at ourselves and work on some areas that needed attention, not least of all our discipline. But the fact that with 12 men, a very good Sharks team only beat us in the last second, gives me some hope. It showed me that this young team has potential.”
Dobson has made seven changes – one of them a positional switch – to the team that went down last week, with Stormers stalwart Harris lining up at tighthead prop and SA Under-20 lock Botha starting in the No.4 jersey.
Rhodes, who has been passed fit from a hamstring injury, will start from the bench where he will be joined by fit-again prop Francois van Wyk and a new face in the shape of back five forward Cobus Nel.
Rhodes, Van Wyk and Nel all come into the selection equation after serious injuries to lock Ryan Olivier (knee) and prop Chris Heiberg (bicep) and Don Armand’s selection in the Stormers squad to face the Brumbies this weekend.
In other changes to the WP line-up, halfbacks Bolla Conradie and Gary van Aswegen – both of whom started against the Sharks – make way for Godlen Masimla and Kurt Coleman at scrumhalf and flyhalf, respectively, with Tim Swiel starting at fullback and Cheslin Kolbe shifting to the left-wing to replace Devon Williams, who is unavailable for selection.
“It was obviously sad to have two campaign ending-injuries for two tight forwards and the injury-list is mounting up, up front,” said Dobson.
“But it’s brilliant that this week, for a game simply must win, to welcome Brok Harris and Mike Rhodes into the squad. They have brought massive energy already and it’s also great to welcome Ruan Botha back from injury.
“This is a good Kings team and it will be a tough game, but I sense progress in our group and we hope to get our 2013 campaign properly underway on Friday.”
The DHL Western Province Vodacom Cup team to take on EP is as follows:
15. Tim Swiel
14. Pat Howard
13. Berton Klaasen
12. Marcel Brache (captain)
11. Cheslin Kolbe
10. Kurt Coleman
9. Godlen Masimla
8. Rayn Smid
7. Sikhumbuzo Notshe
6. Chris Cloete
5. Gerbrandt Grobler (vice-captain)
4. Ruan Botha
3. Brok Harris
2. Stephan Coetzee
1. Ashley Wells
Reserves:
16. Jody Reyneke
17. Francois van Wyk
18. Cobus Nel
19. Michael Rhodes
20. Bolla Conradie
21. Michael van der Spuy
22. Gary van Aswegen
21 Mar 2013, 09:55 am
@The Sharks rugby pedigree is packaged as dog food-39: Hi Ped.lady.The fire will be doused quite soon.Can only play on
adrenalin for a limited period.Look at Brumbies 2nd half.Regards(hope I am wrong)
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