UPDATE: Habana out for 10 weeks with a knee injury after tearing the medial collateral ligament (MCL) – one of the four major ligaments of the knee. .
Teams:
Stormers: 15 Joe Pietersen, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Jean de Villiers (captain), 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Nic Groom, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Rynhardt Elstadt, 6 Siya Kolisi, 5 Andries Bekker, 4 De Kock Steenkamp, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Deon Fourie, 1 Steven Kitshoff.
Replacements: 16 Tiaan Liebenberg, 17 Pat Cilliers, 18 Don Armand, 19 Nizaam Carr, 20 Dewaldt Duvenage, 21 Peter Grant, 22 Gerhard van den Heever.
Chiefs: 15 Gareth Anscombe, 14 Lelia Masaga, 13 Tim Nanai-Williams, 12 Charlie Ngatai, 11 Asaeli Tikoirotuma, 10 Aaron Cruden, 9 Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 8 Liam Messam, 7 Sam Cane, 6 Tanerau Latimer, 5 Brodie Retallick, 4 Craig Clarke (captain), 3 Ben Afeaki, 2 Mahonri Schwalger, 1 Pauliasi Manu.
Replacements: 16 Hika Elliot, 17 Ben Tameifuna, 18 Michael Fitzgerald, 19 Nick Crosswell, 20 Augustine Pulu, 21 Andrew Horrell, 22 Patrick Osborne.
Referee: Jaco Peyper (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Jonathan Kaplan (South Africa), Ben Crouse (South Africa)
TMO: Deon van Blommestein (South Africa)
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March 9th, 2013 at 3:12 pm
See some nice rugby in Wellington (RSA)
between WP and Boland, supporters in the platteland is great
March 9th, 2013 at 3:13 pm
Sold out Newlands this afternoon go Stormers
March 9th, 2013 at 3:40 pm
My mistake Ceres and not Wellington
March 9th, 2013 at 4:01 pm
Just wondering: Is that Chiefs team
not in need for transformation with
a few pronounceable names?
March 9th, 2013 at 5:23 pm
For such a small guy Aplon is sooo dangerous
Stormers forwards with the upper hand in the 1st 15min
March 9th, 2013 at 5:34 pm
I neeeeeeeed for the Stormers to STFU Brendon…
March 9th, 2013 at 5:36 pm
Chiefs defense not great – stormers could do this
March 9th, 2013 at 5:37 pm
Reply to DavidS @ 5:34 pm:
And the Bulls tomorrow
March 9th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
But I would not mind a 3-0 outcome to be perfectly honest…
March 9th, 2013 at 5:56 pm
Stormers playing with some purpose.
HT 26-17
Only two scrums so far.
March 9th, 2013 at 5:57 pm
so far so good for the Stormers – much better performance but i won’t right off the Chiefs just yet in this game.
March 9th, 2013 at 6:03 pm
Bekker: “. . . biggest outside centre in the world.”
March 9th, 2013 at 6:21 pm
Elstad, Kolisi getting good go-forward ball for the team, Jantjies looking the player we know from the Lions and Aplon is a live wire – very happy with the performance so far.
Chiefs line-out needs work!
March 9th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Stormers showing every idiot that said they can not playing a running game wrong
March 9th, 2013 at 6:33 pm
Reply to Jacques(Bunny)Die wat nie hier is nie is elders!! @ 6:26 pm:
2 points – 1. they could not in the 1st two games but they improved.
2. Chiefs defence making it easier for them to do.
March 9th, 2013 at 7:05 pm
And that is the right step into the right direction
March 9th, 2013 at 7:06 pm
Great win for Stormers they deserve it
March 9th, 2013 at 7:06 pm
Good win Stormers – keep that up
March 9th, 2013 at 7:07 pm
Nobody gave them a change, great to beat the odds
March 9th, 2013 at 7:07 pm
And some big STFU’s from Bekker, JdeV.
Die Ellende becoming better with each
outing.
Kolisi too.
March 9th, 2013 at 7:10 pm
Liked Jantjies game today
March 9th, 2013 at 7:48 pm
SA v NZ opposition this weekend
2-0
Oh Brendon Shieldsieeeee
Waar is jyyyyy?
March 9th, 2013 at 10:27 pm
Well done to the Stormers and Chiefs. After today’s rugby I believe in a balanced game plan more than ever. An expansive above all or a ultra conservative aproach will just not ensure success in the long term in modern rugby. The Stormers played rugby for a change and looked better than anything they dished up in their fear of playing rugby 2012. I truly hope Heyneke take notice.
March 9th, 2013 at 10:31 pm
Reply to DavidS @ 7:48 pm: Se jy wat aan die begin van die seisoen verkondig het dat die SA superrugby spanne die swakste in 10 jaar is en afgeslag gaan word. Hoe ironies, jy is natuurlik te skaamteloos om weg te kruip.
March 9th, 2013 at 11:19 pm
Reply to Vetgesmeerde Blits @ 10:31 pm:
Wel . . . skielik lyk die Sharks ook nie
meer so goed nie. Daar lê spanne voor hulle
wat nóg beter verdedig. Sal maar sien wat die
Bulls more doen – maar ek staan wragtig nie
05:00 op nie.
March 10th, 2013 at 12:14 am
Nice to have gone with the heart and not the head in my picks and to have had the Stormers win! Here in NZ the media are blaming ill-discipline by the Chiefs to have cost them. Apparently the feisty scrumhalf Tawera Kerr-Barlow and the normally out of trouble Nick Crosswell were both yellow carded. Was the game a bit niggly as well as exciting?
March 10th, 2013 at 12:33 am
Reply to out wide @ 12:14 am:
Very exciting. Both teams wanted to play rugby.
Yes, two YC’s for the kind of transgressions
that some believe the teams from Down Under
TRAIN to do – like interfering with opponents
without the ball, slowing the ball down at rucks.
I thought Peyper was very fair and strict.
Two good grubber tries that caught the home team
defenseless.
Stormers’ forwards looked well in the scrums and
mauls, taking 3 lineouts, losing one.
They now have a bye before a crunch game vs the
Brumbies at home.
Not niggly, apart from the incident when Vermeulen
was taken out without the ball and retaliated.
March 10th, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Mooi wp!!
March 10th, 2013 at 11:36 pm
Reply to Vetgesmeerde Blits @ 10:31 pm:
Ek dink jy skiet nou bietjies bietjies kak deur jou mond…
March 11th, 2013 at 10:16 am
Reply to DavidS @ 11:36 pm:
Kort Geheue?
DavidS says:
January 22nd, 2013 at 10:37 am
I’m actually going to go out on a limb and reckon that we’re due a spanking for all sides this season.
I don’t think we’ve had weaker sides since the days of Harry Lips Viljoen and Rudolph the Red Nosed 8thman in Super Rugby.
March 11th, 2013 at 10:30 am
Jis maar jy’s fokken pathetic dat jy die tyd het om sulke goed te gaan uitkrap…
March 11th, 2013 at 10:45 am
Reply to DavidS @ 10:30 am:
haha – he is just doing what you do!
March 11th, 2013 at 11:55 am
Reply to DavidS @ 10:30 am:
dis mos nie moeilik om iets wat bietjie meer as ‘n maand terug gese is te onthou nie? Geen krapwerk nodig nie.
March 11th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
Reply to Vetgesmeerde Blits @ 11:55 am:
Ad mit it though, you are impressed at the attempt at making you the baddy in the situation.
March 11th, 2013 at 2:26 pm
Waarheid maak seer ou Dawie – of gaan jy weer papsak blameer …
March 11th, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Jo lekker ding . Go Stormers