2015S15 SA vs NZ matches

[waiopehu oldboy]

Not 100% sure which of these is PlanetRugby's April Fools piece:

"RWC heading to Qatar?"
http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,16016_40535,00.html

Or

"Steyn takes appeal to Swiss court"
http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3551_40541,00.html

References to Jannie du Plessis as Steyn's lawyer & that there's a supposed hashtag #FFS (for Free Frans Steyn) has me thinking it's the latter.............

 

[Dewald Nel]

Not 100% sure which of these is PlanetRugby's April Fools piece:

"RWC heading to Qatar?"
http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,16016_40535,00.html

Or

"Steyn takes appeal to Swiss court"
http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,3551_40541,00.html

References to Jannie du Plessis as Steyn's lawyer & that there's a supposed hashtag #FFS (for Free Frans Steyn) has me thinking it's the latter.....

Easy. Both are.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Easy. Both are.

Having bought themselves a FIFA WC the sheiks probably think they can pick up a RWC for (by comparison) small change. Hopefully they're wrong & you guys get to host it.

 

[boyo]

Is it learned behaviour or is it endemic that Crusaders LHPs set up crooked?

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Match No.46:Hurricanes v Stormers
Date : Friday 3 April 2015
Venue : Westpac Stadium, Wellington
Kick Off local: 19:35 local, 17:35 AEDT, 08:35 SAST
Referee: Rohan Hoffmann
Assistant Ref 1:Kane McBride
Assistant Ref 2:Mike Lash
TMO : Chris Wratt

Hurricanes

1 Reggie Goodes
2 Motu Matu’u
3 Ben Franks
4 Jeremy Thrush
5 James Broadhurst
6 Brad Shields
7 Callum Gibbins
8 Victor Vito
9 TJ Perenara
10 Beauden Barrett
11Julian Savea
12 Ma’a Nonu
13 Conrad Smith
14 Cory Jane
15 Nehe Milner-Skudder

Reserves
16.Brayden Mitchell
17.Ben May
18.Chris Eves
19.Mark Abbott
20.Adam Hill
21.Chris Smylie
22.Rey Lee-Lo
23.James Marshall

Stormers

1 Steven Kitshoff.
2 Scarra Ntubeni
3 Vincent Koch
4 Eben Etzebeth
5 Manuel Carizza
6 Siya Kolisi
7 Schalk Burger
8 Duane Vermeulen (c)
9 Nic Groom
10 Demetri Catrakilis
11 Dillyn Leyds
12 Damian de Allende
13 Juan de Jongh
14 Kobus van Wyk
15 Cheslin Kolbe

Reserves

16 Bongi Mbonambi
17 Oli Kebble
18 Frans Malherbe
19 Ruan Botha
20 Michael Rhodes
21 Louis Schreuder
22 Kurt Coleman
23 Huw Jones.

NZ TAB has Hurricanes $1.27, Stormers $3.50 & an 8.5 start.

Weather-wise should be good conditions, around 18 deg, 77% humidity & little chance of rain. Wind could be an issue, Northerly of 30 kph or thereabouts.

Hurricanes by 10ish.

 

[Blue]

Expect a huge performance from the Stomps. They will hit the breakdown like men possessed with Ysterbeth and Dwayne the Payne back in the team.

The Canes will score points. The question is whether the Stomps can score points.

Canes will have seen how the Clan swatted Kolbe around and try to get big guys running at him. He is a clear liability with big bodies running at speed.

Cracking game this one.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

10 gone, Horrorcanes 3-0. Pretty messy so far. Lots of empty seats, way too many for a team that's 6/6 to be comfortable about esp when they were always the best-performing NZ side in terms of season tickets, merchandise etc.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Katrikilis evens it up after 15.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Beaugan puts 'canes back in front after 20. Then puts a potential attacking penalty over the DB line, Stormers lineout back on the 'canes 10m line.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

6-3 after 20 minutes as Beaugan Barrett bisects the uprights with another penalty.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Try Milne-Skudder unless they find evidence of foul play in the lead up. Which they don't. Poor old Kolbe just looks like a 12yo out there. Kick is good, 13-3 after 27. Horrorcanes dodged a bullet with Conrad's (deliberate?) knock on going unnoticed

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Sir awards the try after a fair bit of TMO review.

27 minutes gone. Hurricanes 13 - Stormers 3.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Upper Hutt's finest looking pretty good out there BTW. Motu goes off bleeding like the proverbial, he'll be back one imagines...........

 

[qwerty51]

Referees are killing the game. Too many stoppages.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

Try Savea off a great run from Milne-Skudder, last pass being looked at by TMO but Stormers 14 May have gotten a hand on it too..... try stands, 18-3 & not quite oranges. Stormers will have to up,their game 200% in the 2nd 40 or they're gonna get flogged like convicts......................

 

[qwerty51]

That was a good try. Give them the title now.

 

[waiopehu oldboy]

95m try Horrorcanes off a turnover. Stormers fucked unless it's a 30-point wind (which it ain't). Oranges, 25-3.

 

[swingpass]

Well I was about to say TV director strikes again with limited reviews and then the canes score a most wonderful try

 

[Hawko]

Referees are killing the game. Too many stoppages.

Referees are killing the game - not enough stoppages! That knock-down knock-on led to a 14 point turnaround that the Hurricanes did not deserve to get. Probably should have been a yellow card 5 metres out.

 

[Ruggo]

That was a brilliant try just before half time.