Alistair Coetzee has put together a backline despite all the injury concerns around scrumhalf and flyhalf, and has announced his team to face the Rebels this weekend in Melbourne.
Ricky Januarie will be in the scrumhalf position with Kurt Coleman getting his second shot at Super Rugby playing in the all important flyhalf position. The centre combination has also been boosted by the return to the starting team for Jean de Villiers, who played off the bench last weekend against the Brumbies.
The coach has decided to rest a few key players in Andries Bekker and Deon Fourie, who have been replaced by Anton van Zyl and Tiaan Liebenberg. Emergency cover Earl Rose has made his way onto the bench for this game.
With Dewaldt Duvenhage ruled out and Januarie making the starting team, third choice scrumhalf Louis Schreuder has been included on the bench.
Stormers: 15. Conrad Jantjes,14. Gio Aplon ,13. Jaque Fourie,12. Jean de Villiers,11. Bryan Habana ,10. Kurt Coleman,9. Ricky Januarie ,8. Duane Vermeulen ,7. Francois Louw,6. Schalk Burger (C),5. Anton van Zyl,4. Rynhardt Elstadt ,3. Brok Harris,2. Tiaan Liebenberg,1. Wicus Blaauw
Reserves: 16. Deon Fourie,17. Frans Malherbe,18. Andries Bekker,19. Nick Koster,20. Louis Schreuder ,21. Earl Rose ,22. Juan de Jongh
Stormers by 8
A note to all the Sharks supporters, we actually HAVE A 3rd choice scrumhalf!
@wpw (Comment 2) :
Glad you caught that
@wpw (Comment 2) :
And you make a good point..
Good thing is that we can call on our little French connection..
Quite upset that Sadie has dropped out the 22 altogether, but anyway.
Good to see Andries get a ‘rest’.
@molly (Comment 5) :
He is your fourth choice centre and third choice wing..
Kinda unlucky with the scrumhalf and flyhalf backups..
@molly (Comment 5) : did u miss the resting the good players part, sadie is resting
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 4) :
And we can call our…oh wait!!
Nevermind!
@wpw (Comment 2) : I`d be more worried about your second choice at scrumhalf than your third
But come on: Give Earl Rose at least 30 minutes this weekend!
He needs to start somewhere
This is good for province, they gonna need their players rested for the last stretch….
@Original Pierre (Comment 10) :
All Earl needs is a winning environment.
Something he clearly never exprienced while at the Lions!
@wpw (Comment 9) :
Finish the sentence… Griquas connection..
@wpw (Comment 9) & @Richard Ferguson (Comment 13) : We do have a Sarries connection, not sure how flex it is though.
@molly (Comment 14) :
Oh wow.. that’s quite cool..
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 13) : Could be a usefull connection, they do have Sarel Pretorius and Riaan Viljoen.
@molly (Comment 14) : Well you ended up with Earl Rose so I’d say, not very flex.
@molly (Comment 5) : yeah, he`s in durban at the moment, finalizing his contract negotiations…
Bekker on the bench, his favoured position.
@VanWilder (Comment 18) : From your lips . ..
@Salmonoid (Comment 19) : Park bench?
Stormers by 10
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 21) : Bwhahahahahahahaha