I'm at a event, will try to follow things on the phone.
I'm at a event, will try to follow things on the phone.
Onaanvaarbaar, Draad. Onaanvaarbaar.
I’ll watch a bit of the first half
You guys are a tough crowd today.
Tigers looking smooth early on. Handbags.
Looks like Sacha kicked it off. Anyhoo, we scrum.
Full shoulder to face contact on Mchunu. Ref will check it now.
That might be red unless they can find some mitigation. Looks like yellow only.
Superb break by Roche sets up Roos for the score.
Eh, looked like a double movement from Roos there but the try stands.
Super try Stormers.
Good passage for the Stormers ends in a lineout deep in Tigers territory.
Looking much better than last week's second string so far.
Trouble in lineouts. Second one in a row lost.
Roche with a good turnover penalty.
Venter into the corner off the maul. 12-0
Simelane pulls a Gelant with a terrible pass off the kickoff and Tigers now have possession. Nice cover by Ungerer coming across.
Try Tigers under the posts. 12-7
Tigers again float the ball wide of the Stormers defense and into space. Good gain for them.
Superb try Tigers, pinning the Stormers midfield and Wand with the line into the gap. 14-12
I see Willemse not playing or Nel at 12.
Center defence looks like a, weak link.
Tigers ahead, enjoying the cape weather
Good line breaks, but too eager to speed up the game. Just pin them back and take your time
Ungerer is a useful scrummie gets the ball away quickly. Nice boot.
Stormers trying to play way to fast and from with in their own half
Tigers playing the right game. Get ball, push for the corner, forcing the Stormers to play from their 22 and taking advantage of their off load game and feasting off their 50 50 passes
Tigers miss a sitter of a penalty.
Sacha with a perfect grubber for Maart but he just can't gather a difficult last bounce, otherwise try time.
Penalty Sacha, 15-14 Stormers lead at HT.
Tigers maul it over. Conversion good, 15-21
Try Tigers, still show what pressure play is all about, good patient mall
Roos with a great pickup and break but loses the ball in the tackle.
Roos make a brilliant break from a pick up but as he steps lose control of the ball and knocks it on
Roos doing DDA stuff out back. Beautiful try by the Stormers, offloads on point, Zas finishes. 22-21
Great play by Stormers, just running off the shoulders. Great interchange play by forwards and back, Zas cuts in and scores under the sticks
Game on
Zulu boy showing some sense. Take the mark in 22. Faint a cramp. Good clear and allowing players to catch their breath
Sacha with a nice run from the back. Tigers probably don't want to kick on him too much.
Technical lineout error Stormers, bad one in an attacking position. Tigers will clear.
Roos receiving at 12 again. Stormers spill it.
Forward pass Tigers not called.
Roos with the turnover penalty after a fine tackle by BJ. This is shaping into a fine loose trio for the Stormers.
Roche is Solid in midfield, massive tackle, roos over the ball and penalty
Ungerer off after a fine game.
Stormers dominating at scrumtime.
Meh, Sacha may be in trouble for an elbow while handing off. Yellow card. That could be big.
WTF, yellow for Sasha trying to fend off a player. F'ing TMO
Tigers immediately into top gear as they look to take advantage. The 12 kicks it away fortunately.
Great turnover Stormers, didn't see who it was. Schikerling runs it in. Whoever got that turnover has to get credit for that among others. 29-21
Amazing try by Schekeling, dummy and takes the inside line
Stormers 8 points clear, 29 - 21
Stormers defense has settled well now, very little space for the Tigers.
Raining, all of sudden handling becoming difficult
Strong rain coming down now.
32-21
Chargedown and Tigers score. The boxie fails again. I was about to say I don't think Tigers can come back here and then this. No conversion, 32-26. Converted try needed.
Charge down, lumping tigers lock scores , poor clearance
6 point game now, 5 min to go. Zulu boy back. Need to pin Leicester
Scrum Tiges, Tigers up and under and knocks on. Stormers need to keep their heads now
Jakkals de Villiers gets MOTM.
Khan scrummy is kak. Gets great Stormers scrum and then runs off shoulder. Makes meters, then bottles it by trying to grubber
Yeah that was a kak grubber attempt.
Scrum penalty Stormers. They should close out from here.
This was a good contest. Stormers dominated at the right time, sorted their leaky first half defense and pulled it through. Khan scores and denies the Tigers a losing bonus point.
39-26. Good game.
Great game. Hartzenberg is over rated. Slipped a lot of tackles.
Stormers Will get home game in Last 16.
Score doesn't reflect the real game.
The rain in the final quarter helped the Stormers. Very slippery under foot and killed any running rugby or accuracy for Tigers
And Paul De Villiers man of the match. again!!!!
What a player. Must be in the bok team to replace Kwotalisi.
Is he still playing?
Great effort from the team. Pity about that charge down try the Tigers got.
Scrum in complete control in second half.
Simikane an improvement on Gelant.
Two scrummie did well.
Not really imprsessed by the Stormers in view if the multiole handling errors and defense cost them points/
Howevcer, a bonus point win remains a bonus point win,
I'll take that.
Slippery ball Mike. Damp rainy conditions.
See we are second on our pool log Draad.
If Quins get 2 points vs LaRochel tomorrow they will overtake us.
Maybe I was a noy hatsh, Based on perfromances. Do some reasons the Stormers send a very weak team to with 4 newboes to play against Harlequins lat week and realzed the eam will need to concentrate on Leicester this week. Be it as it may leicester as by some b dstance th e strongest team SA sides played against.
BY the way - what was the best Stormers try today? My vote goes to schickerling - the dummy he used to beat defemders was for a forward masterclass, I think for the rest D eV illies and Roos were the best loosie display thia weke and Sacha varied from very good ordinary, The rain could have ccaused problems in ball handling. I am not sure Harlequins can beat La Rochelle - but something tells me that big win last Saturday was extremely misleading as to the real strngth of Harlequins
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