The second match this morning has some South African interest as the Stormers are aiming to take a third victory on the road against a Rebels team that have had a very long first season in Super Rugby.
The Rebels’ woeful season has not gotten any better as Danny Cipriani’s antics off the field has forced the selection committee to overlook him and instead play centre Julian Huxley at flyhalf.
The Stormers had a few changes to their team this week, but not due to injury. The coach has decided to give a few players a deserved break after a few intense games, which should continue as they return home to end the season against two very physical South African sides.
The game kicks off at 11h40 and I predict an easy victory for the Stormers.
Rebels : 1 Nic Henderson, 2 Ged Robinson, 3 Laurie Weeks, 4 Alister Campbell ,5 Hugh Pyle ,6 Jarrod Saffy, 7 Michael Lipman, 8 Gareth Delve (vc),9 Nick Phipps ,10 Julian Huxley ,11 Cooper Vuna ,12 Stirling Mortlock (c), 13 Mark Gerrard ,14 Lachlan Mitchell ,15 Richard Kingi
Replacements : 16 Adam Freier, 17 Greg Somerville, 18 Kevin O’Neill ,19 Tim Davidson, 20 Sam Cordingley ,21 Peter Betham, 22 Afusipa Taumoepeau
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
Match Officials
Referee: Chris Pollock
Assistant referees: Stuart Dickinson, Angus Gardner
Television match official: George Ayoub
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Might miss this. 🙁
Hoping to catch the 2nd half.
Well the Force just beat the Highlanders – so maybe the Rebels can beat the Stormers? (one can always hope!)
@Caratacus (Comment 2) : As long as they keep rose on the bench the Stormers should take this one. Stormers by 5
@Viking (Comment 3) : Noooo give him a Chance!!
@McLovin (Comment 1) : will miss this match hoping to catch updates.
@Original Pierre (Comment 4) : 😆
Rebels try!
@Ben (Comment 7) : Rebels try and win this please!!! Haha
@Ben (Comment 7) : Serious????
bring on Earl Now!!!!
Does anybody know why the Rebels are wearing armbands?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 9) : Lol. 🙂
@KSA Shark © (Comment 9) : Don’t worry. Earl only needs like 5 min to stuff up a game for his team 😉
Coleman slots a penalty.
Rebels 0 – 3 Stormers
Penalty to Rebels in front
3 – 3
HAHAHA Schalla attempted a drop. Got to run.
Habana scores from first phase ball.
Yes I did say Habana scores!!!!
Rebels 3 – 10 Stormers
@Viking (Comment 16) : was that his first try in stormers jersey 🙂
PK stormers
Rebels 3 – 13 Stormers
22 minutes
Ricky is doing a Ricky job at scrum half.
@franshark (Comment 17) : nop – he scored one against the bulls
@Mocho (Comment 19) : is he playing prop 😆
PK stormers
Rebels 3 – 16 Stormers
29 minutes
Habba knocks a almost intercept..
I picked the Stormers by 17….. I think 😕
Stormers gets an tighthead…
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 24) : I went by 8
Rebels gets a penalty and ops for lineout, knocks the ball, stormers scrum…
Rebels 3 – 16 Stormers
36 minutes
HALF TIME
Rebels 3 – 16 Stormers
40 minutes
no surprises here.
Time to bring on Earl the Destroyer!
@Original Pierre (Comment 31) : The destroyer of leads 😛
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 32) : ssssh ! 😈
I’m back. Now the Stormers can cut loose.
Second half underway…
Liebenberg is having a . . . Storming Game !
@Original Pierre (Comment 36) : It was a nice run he had down the touchline…
Punches punches punches all over the show. Wonder if someone will be sited? Probably not.
Penalty to stormers in rebels 22.
Ricky in the thick of things as always LOL
Stormers opts for the lineout but fails to deliver. Another P to Stormers and they go for touch again after Mortlock is warned.
Kurt in the corner.
Coolerbox Coleman steps beautifully and scores. Converts his try and the score is 23 – 3 to Stormers
Rebels 3 – 23 Stormers
54min
TRY Jacque Fourie. Jean steps the gap and offload to JF who scores in the corner.
Fourie in the other corner!
Rebels 3 – 28 Stormers
@McLovin (Comment 34) : Seems like the boys read SW. 😉
3 down one more to go.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 47) :
@McLovin (Comment 48) : Can the Stormers actually get a 4 try bonus point? Lets wait and see. I must say that they are looking good so far.
@Viking (Comment 50) : Hope so. They’ve got 20min to get it.
Habana scored a good try but I reckon its time they replace him.
@Viking (Comment 52) : And bring on Earl. 😈
go stormers, bring on Earl the Pearl
Earl is on!
@McLovin (Comment 53) : Your wish is their command. I just hope he doesnt cost the stormers the BP?
Earl seems to be wearing every type of padding available.
HAHAHA…HABANA!!!! Hy lyk nou rerig soos ‘n aap met daai Baard!!!
Stormers making plenty of stupid errors. 😐
10min left & still one more try needed.
8min
Ricky off.
I need the Rebels to score, margin of 15 points would be nice.
@McLovin (Comment 59) : Stormers are throwing away that bonus point. Patience and ball retention required!!!
5min
@Viking (Comment 64) : Somewhat disappointing, but 13 points from the tour is still good enough for me.
@McLovin (Comment 62) : There you go…Bonus Points!!!! Koster score under the posts.
Finally!
@McLovin (Comment 66) : 14 now…Vert good tour for any team.
@Viking (Comment 67) : 👿 😛
Stormers ‘lucky’ again.
😆
Jean scores another try from a pass that went about 100m forward..But what the hell…Its not like it will make a difference anymore.
And then they sommer score a 5th. 😆
@Viking (Comment 72) : Rebels player knocked it back. 🙂
FINAL SCORE
Rebels 3 – 40 Stormers.
@McLovin (Comment 71) : 😈
@McLovin (Comment 74) : Ooooh!!! Missed it. Not easy to see exacty who touched the ball when the TV in your office is 20 meter from your desk 😯
Job done.
14 points on tour.
Would have taken that pre-tour. 😎
@Viking (Comment 77) : I’m about 2m from the tv and still not sure whether I saw it. 😆
Well done stormers…Good game and great tour. Seems like you guys are the SA team to beat.
@McLovin (Comment 78) : absolutely 👿
Now if only the Brumbies can do us a favour. 🙄
@Viking (Comment 80) : yes – they’ve done well. Can’t argue with 3/4 on tour.
@McLovin (Comment 53) : FLIP!!!! Won’t you please become a Shark supporter and tell us how you manage to get a team to follow your instructions like that.
😛
Well done Stormers, this is it you are the top placed SA team. Make sure the Trophy stays in SA Please.
from here on out I will be supporting you guys 100%. unless bt some miracle we face you in the final.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 84) : It’s a funny old game. Quite possible that we could be playing Sharks or Bulls in the ‘quarters’.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 84) : Will definitely be supporting the Sharks tomorrow (and Bulls tonight). 🙂
@McLovin (Comment 85) : funny new game actually, u guys did exceptionally well, congrats.. Enjoy it!!!!
@KSA Shark © (Comment 84) : I was thinking of supporting the Stormers but then they went and got Earl.
@franshark (Comment 87) : Thanks. 🙂
@lostfish (Comment 88) : I seriously doubt whether we’ll be seeing much more of Earl.
@McLovin (Comment 86) : And the Chiefs & Brumbies.
pity about the Bulls – Stormers and Bulls- Sharks games.
Otherwise we could have 3 teams in the knock outs
@robdylan (Comment 92) :
It’s still not impossible. If the Sharks and Bulls win 2 games each they could all still qualify.
@McLovin (Comment 90) : I hope so!
@Pokkel (Comment 93) : Correctomundo. Would be cool. 😎
@Pokkel (Comment 93) : oh is it? Cool
that means Bulls beating us though, dunnit?
@McLovin (Comment 90) :
He didn’t do much wrong did he?
Maybe its because he is finally part of a winning team! 😈
@robdylan (Comment 96) :
You said it not me
@Pokkel (Comment 98) : When can I expect my royalties cheque, groot seun?
@wpw (Comment 97) : Is that your way of saying he had lots of place to hide when surrounded by decent players?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 100) : Aaaaargh…your avatar is burning my eyes!!
@klempie (Comment 99) :
Gimme your bank details! I pay in Zim dollars!
@Pokkel (Comment 102) : OK. That’ll be $999 999 999 999 999.95. 😎
@klempie (Comment 103) :
Did you design it?
I was sure I got it off the web somewhere?
Great work!
@klempie (Comment 101) : The “I love Rugby” one? 😆
I didn’t even consider the fact that it was showing a bit much skin for our site. I will change it when I get home this afternoon.
@Pokkel (Comment 104) : That’s my hand and everything. 😎
@klempie (Comment 106) :
Fantastic…….I put it up especially before the Bulls game.
Does this mean I have to change it now ❓
@klempie (Comment 106) :
Jyt darem n lang middel vinger wuh! 😈 😯
@wpw (Comment 97) : Earl did fine ja, dressed like Robocop.
@Pokkel (Comment 107) : Not if I get my Zim$. 😎
@wpw (Comment 108) : You know what the say about okes with long middle fingers. 😎
@wpw (Comment 108) : good win by your team 😛 14 out of 20 log points, slightly better than than the 12 the guppys got 😛
@Megatron (Comment 112) : 😉
@Megatron (Comment 112) : but guppies’ points were acquired in far more dramatic fashion 😀
Stormers’s been good travellers for some time now.
@rekinek (Comment 114) : ja you right, you okes scraped through by the skin of your arse to get past the rebels 34 – 32 😆
@Megatron (Comment 115) : Ja, but that was when they were still worthy of their name, and they still had Cipriani then as well. Stormers had it easy.
@Salmonoid (Comment 116) : rubbish, their first game the Tahs moered them 46 – 0 or something, WITH capriati 😐
@Salmonoid (Comment 116) : Stormers pplayed the 5th choice #10 and EARL ROSE!! 😯 you have no excuses charlie 😀
@Megatron (Comment 117) : we were the first ones to beat them on the even game ❗
@Megatron (Comment 118) : did they let earl to play – was this the 3 points
@rekinek (Comment 120) : earl ran on in the 2nd stanza and put a BIG hit on Mortlock, he’s BACK! 😀
@Megatron (Comment 118) : jeez – 3d skin today – you’re worse than a lady 😆
@rekinek (Comment 119) : Tell him Reki, we softened them up for all the teams that played them after us. (I must learn to use smileys, people take me too seriously)
gee i was out by 30 😥
but its great congrats Streamers
Megatron, that new avatar looks like the Eastern Capes anti poaching units badge.
@Megatron (Comment 54) : oh my from Sharks to saders to Streamers are you feeling ok
@Megatron (Comment 121) : Alls well as long as Earl and family keep their hits to the rugby field. 😈
@Salmonoid (Comment 125) : hahaha funny guy buccaneer! 😆
@Salmonoid (Comment 123) : but of course – and without hurting Rebels feelings too much. 😉 we’re such a nice bunch even Mega wants to hang out with us 😆
@rekinek (Comment 129) : um, i don’t think so, i only hang out here to talk to Sharon dude 🙂
@Megatron (Comment 130) :
Sharon who 😉
oh my yes Sharon stone
@Megatron (Comment 130) : but of course … 😆
Just cause I missed it:
Stormers, HELL YEAH!!!
@molly (Comment 133) :
mooly you can always watch it they are having a replay on SS 201
@Salmonoid (Comment 123) : All you guys did was let them think that they were actually competitive, some of us have to beat it into them that they’re actually quite kak 😉
@chaz (Comment 134) : SCHWEETT!!!!
@chaz (Comment 134) : oh… Mooly? you calling me a cow? 😉 😆
@Megatron (Comment 130) : Reki is a she Dude! 😉
@molly (Comment 137) :
sorry missed spelled Molly 😳
still friends
@Ben (Comment 138) : a very good looking gal my friend
and the new troll like to take short cuts
@chaz (Comment 140) : Is she spoken for?
@Ben (Comment 141) :
why not ask her on SW yes but the world out there i don’t know
sorry Reniek my sister in crime
@chaz (Comment 142) : 🙂 what do you mean?
@chaz (Comment 139) : I was just kidding with you, but if it catches on 😉
@Ben (Comment 143) : you asked if she is spoken for yes on SW for we all like Reniek but the out side world i really don’t know
get my driff 🙂 😉
@molly (Comment 144) : i know but big fish did the same on the other thread just typing to fast i guess 🙂
@chaz (Comment 145) : Lol oh I see. 🙂
@Ben (Comment 147) :
🙄 🙂
you knew that just giving me a hard time with that good mood of yours 😆
@chaz (Comment 148) : LOL I’m kidding about the whole thing. 🙄 😉
@Ben (Comment 149) : that i knew to 😛
was just plying around