Blues (19) 26 / Stormers (3) 28 (Final Score)
The Blues hosted the DHL Stormers at Eden Park, Auckland at 09:35 SA Time. This was the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1, SHD & M-Net on TV in SA.
The Stormers grabbed the game out of the fire, with a last minute penalty… and the conversion won them the game.
Scorers:
Blues: 4 Penalties & 2 Conversions Luke McAlister, 1 Try Alby Mathewson, 1 Try Lachie Munro
Stormers: 1 Penalty Lionel Cronje, 2 Penalties & 2 Conversions Dewaldt Duvenage, 1 Try Juan de Jongh, 1 Try Johann Sadie, 1 Try Schalk Burger
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Teams:
Blues: 15 Lachie Munro, 14 Joe Rokocoko, 13 Jared Payne, 12 Luke McAlister, 11 Sherwin Stowers, 10 Stephen Brett, 9 Alby Mathewson, 8 Peter Saili, 7 Luke Braid, 6 Jerome Kaino, 5 Ali Williams, 4 Anthony Boric, 3 John Afoa, 2 Keven Mealamu (captain), 1 Tom McCartney.
Replacements: 16 Pauliasi Manu, 17 Tevita Mailau, 18 Chris Lowrey, 19 Sean Polwart, 20 Chris Smylie, 21 Winston Stanley, 22 Rene Ranger.
Stormers: 15 Conrad Jantjes, 14 Gio Aplon, 13 Johann Sadie, 12 Juan de Jongh, 11 Bryan Habana, 10 Lionel Cronje, 9 Ricky Januarie, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Francois Louw, 6 Schalk Burger (captain), 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Rynhardt Elstadt, 3 CJ van der Linde, 2 Deon Fourie, 1 Wicus Blaauw.
Replacements: 16 Tiaan Liebenberg, 17 Brok Harris, 18 Steven Kitshoff, 19 Anton van Zyl, 20 Dewaldt Duvenage, 21 Danie Poolman, 22 Nick Koster.
Referee: Keith Brown (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: Glen Jackson (New Zealand), Richard Kelly (New Zealand)
TMO: Ben Skeen (New Zealand)
super @ 28
nope … issi wiele wat soe afkom!!
How do you justify subbing a flyhalf with a scrummie?
30@ Pietman:
Hellooooooooooooo, ouboet!
Habana carries it back over his goal line… 5m scrum
Stormers defend the Blues break from the scrum well and turns the ball over
Penalty Blues, from the resulting Stormers scrum…. McAlister will go for goal
Blues 16 / 3
Hello Pietman of Arabia, hoe hou jy die stof uit, verlang seker na Franskraal
Francois Louw patently offside… Yellow Card
Stormers dicipline woeful… their general play sub-standard
O hel die Toer is besig om Pear shaped te raak. Hier is n Job en n half vir die Stormers om terug te kom in die game.
Blues 19 / 3
Handbags…
Wiele kom af, handsakke vlieg links en regs.
Stormers usual solid defence not good today, Blues getting over the advantage line far too easily
Verbrokkel Harris on for CJ van der Linde
Stormers scrum battling against a strong Blues scrum
Lemoenetyd
nope … think i’d rather go and do something constructive … see you guys later …. much, much later!!
Stormers looking worse than I anticipated before the game
@ superBul:
Klaar gepak ou bees, ry vlg week terug. Ons Franskraal-manne het vandag n potjiekos samekos hier by ‘die swembad by die see’, ons gaan moosa branders maak! Klein wereld, ou Willem hier is die swaer van Kenny daar by Caltex op Goosebay waar ek en jy destyds altyd petrol ingegooi het, hy is al 10 jaar hier, pakket gevat by Telkom, nou grootkop by British Telecom. Hele paar SA bestuurders op perdeplase ook, manne daar uit Bredasdorp se wereld.
Maar ons server is af hier, ek sien nie die rugby nie, praat later, gaan nou weer soek vir n sein.
Man, the Stormers are playing crap. The scrum is non existent.
@ Ashley:
Jou span het NOU jou support nodig. Dis maar swaar maar byt vas.
gbs @ 32
agree … i was also baffled by duvenhage coming on for cronje!!
super @ 53
(sug) my support gaan nie veel beteken as hulle so bly speel nie!!
2nd Half on!
Stormers falling to pieces here. Mentally they have just lost it completely. Started from the saders match which they couldn’t finish the job and then the implosion against the chiefs. Looks like the mental strength just isn’t there – stormers are too limited in their play and when that goes wrong they don’t have any idea! The disappointing thing is that now there won’t be a SA team in 1st or 2nd place on the log.
en daar verdubbel ons ons score vd 1ste helfte!! (sug) yippeeeeeee!! 👿
Blues 19 / 6
Stormers are getting back into this or am i dreaming?
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