Coach57,555 posts
13 Jul 2013, 23:52
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13 Jul 2013, 23:52#1
The Stormers beating the Bulls easily taught us all a few lessons. One is that the Bulls forwars are messy - and could not keep up any pressure. They are just not strong enough to compete with the Sharks and the Stormers in that Departent of the game.
The second thing is that any team wishing to win needs a good pivot at flyhalf. Morne Steyn was today absolute crap and that cost the Bulls heavily. You don't kick balls away if your forwards are not good enough to win the resulting line-outs. On the other hand it shows one thing clearly. The Stormers should have played Van Aswegen at flyhalf and not play around with the useless Jantjies. The latter cost them dearly.
Aside from Jantjies - the Stormers should not have selected DeJongh at 13 - he is absolutely harmless. They should have stuck with De Allende at 12 and De Villiers at 13. That combination would have carried them through to the play-off stage of the competition.


