URC 1st QF, Glasgow vs Stormers

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Eventually it show’s…..this hot stepper Backline of the stormers can’t defend even if there life depended on it…..

Now a person also understands why a guy like gelant is not a Bok….

Hartzenberg at 13?? Come on Dobbo what are you smoking??

Sacha was like a jack in the Box, all over, but really did nothing. And that will always be what she wrote when it comes to Manie……

Great guy to have when things go well, but when things go tight and you need more than a cross kick, he is not the guy…

What a pathetic showing other than 1 or 2 good scrums…..

Congrats Glasgow, they played like winners…..

The video above says exactly what I have been saying about the Stormers.

In particular, I place most/all of the blame on the coach. There are hardly any new players in this side. Most of them have been with him for years now. Yet, they can't defend, their attacking structures try to emulate anime rugby with each guy believing he's some sort of ninja and their game management is horrendous.

Galant is a perfect example. Game after game he does one good thing and ten retarded things. Why has he never been reined in? Why is he still allowed to do the absolutely insane stuff that he does every single week and that invariably costs the Stormers swathes of ground and often points too? Why has he not been told to stop the theatrics and bullshit and play serious rugby?

It boggles the mind to think that a coach is watching him play and never thinks to tell him that rugby isn't basketball. That not losing ground is the first priority and that 50/50 passes are a once in a game type thing and not every time you get the ball thing?

You watch Galant trying to goose step in his own 22 with 3 chasers hunting him, or running crazy lines and chucking total freshie passes...I would drop him instantly. Not only doesn't he get dropped, there is apparently no balls/motivation/wisdom to tell him to take his job seriously and stop treating professional rugby like it's a backyard game that he and his chommies are playing at a braai.

And you have to wonder, when there are failings as obvious as Galant never being reined in, how many more less obvious failings are there?

Well, you watch the Stormers and the proof is the pudding. It's only the really shitty sides in the URC that allow for the Stormers to make the playoffs. Remove the Italian and most of the Welsh sides and where are the Stormers? Nowhere.

Sure they don't have the amount of Boks that the Sharks do, but they have a decent amount and the rest are all seasoned pros playing at a top club in SA.

Sack the bloody coach already and get a serious rugby person in the chair.

...or keep eating Jake's dust.

It’s not only the coach that must go, include some of these clown players to….do it right this time!!

Go Bulls make us proud today!!

The fans are as much to blame. They perpetuate this by cheering these ballet dancers when they do their little dummies and flicks and behind the back passes and cute grubbers against poor opposition, too stupid to realize that none of that shit means a thing in a proper game of rugby against a worthy opponent.

In the build up to the match Dobson was talking very confidently, flying out to Glasgow a week early, good preparation, good mentality in the camp and I suppose you don't wan to talk yourself down but I didn't think the Stormers recent performances and overall performances this warranted warranted such confidence.

I like Dobson as a guy, he comes across really well in interviews but that did not look like a well coached team yesterday evening. Probably a team for him to move role.

Do get the impression that for all the talent the South African franchises can field on the pitch they are not particular well coached at franchise level, with White being the best of the current crop. That's not to say SA coaches are bad in general as both Franco Smith and Johann Van Graan are doing quite well up north.

Franco made Dobson look like a beginner - Stormers completely exposed defensively and tactically. Great display on how to open up defences

Toothless display by a Stormers side lacking quality props, a blindside and a pair of centres

Dan du Plessis has regressed to a nothing these days - was so good last season

Jordan is a class act I said he should have been a Lion and he showed why - plays 10, 12, 13 and 15

I don't think the pack was that bad, but Moerat was nowhere. He is supposed to be our go forward ball player. Roos had a really bad game. Only one trying at least. The props are a joke for sure.

They missed BJD, VAN Heerden was solid.

But Zulu, Hartzenberg, Gelant, Libbok were all kak. How poor was there defence

Then Zulu tried way to much.

Might have been a good opportunity to move Roos to the centre. I wonder why coaches don't work on plan b or c.

You here Rassie say that if he runs out of backs. He has forward like kwagga that can cover the backline.

If you got that route then you have to think outside the box.

Ja, Franco is a quality coach

Moerat was concussed early on, KC.