Stormers (11) 14 / Crusaders (10) 20 (Final Score)
The DHL Stormers hosted the Crusaders at Newlands, Cape Town at 17:05 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.
This game lived up to it’s hype…. a cracker!
The silky offload skills by Sonny Bill Williams, the speed and hard running by Jaque Fourie, the strong Crusaders scrum, tight defence by the Stormers… classic.
Scorers:
Stormers: 3 Penalties Lionel Cronje, 1 Try Jaque Fourie
Crusaders: 2 Conversions & 2 Penalties Matt Berquist, 2 Tries Wyatt Crockett
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Teams:
Stormers: 15 Conrad Jantjes, 14 Johann Sadie, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Jean de Villiers, 11 Gio Aplon, 10 Lionel Cronje, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Francois Louw, 6 Schalk Burger (captain), 5 Andries Bekker, 4 Reynardt Elstadt, 3 CJ van der Linde, 2 Deon Fourie, 1 Wicus Blaauw.
Replacements: 16 Tiaan Liebenberg, 17 Brok Harris, 18 De Kock Steenkamp, 19 Nick Koster, 20 Ricky Januarie, 21 Kurt Coleman, 22 Juan De Jongh.
Crusaders: 15 Israel Dagg ,14 Sean Maitland 13 Robbie Fruean, 12 Sonny Bill Williams, 11 Zac Guildford, 10 Matt Berquist, 9 Kahn Fotuali’i, 8 Kieran Read (captain), 7 Matt Todd, 6 George Whitelock, 5 Chris Jack, 4 Luke Romano, 3 Owen Franks, 2 Corey Flynn, 1 Wyatt Crockett.
Replacements: 16 Quentin MacDonald, 17 Andrew Olorenshaw, 18 Joe Wheeler, 19 Jonathan Poff, 20 Willi Heinz, 21 Tom Marshall, 22 Adam Whitelock.
Referees: Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
Assistant referees: Pro Legoete (South Africa), Phillip Bosch (South Africa)
TMO: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)
Dit was wild…. was ‘n goeie game
Saders have now beaten ALL 3 top SA Teams….
Ja, gripping game. Sadly, my team made too many mistakes, often at the most critical junctures. Hats off to the Crusaders though and they could actually have won by more come to think of it….
Tough game indeed.
I question the ref’s interpretation somewhat at Scrumtime.
Didn’t think Saders were scrumming totally within the rules, but I suppose the end justifies the means.
Mind you, this ref was somewhat like a womans vibrator!
Tried to do the job, but just wasn’t really up to the real thing.
IOW he had a kak game.
Having siad that, not many of the ref’s I saw this weekend had very good games.
The amount of foreward passes missed was shocking,and the interpretations at ruck time seem to differ every 15 minutes!
Don’t suppose we can expect anything to change in a hurry though!
After all, if you have a whistle at you’re lips, you are perfection personified.
At least when they look in the mirror, they think they are perfection personified,but in reality, they’re just ordinary people with a VERY high opinion of themselves.
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