All Black and Hurricanes centre Conrad Smith admitted he was surprised by the Stormers’ showing against the Lions in Johannesburg last week.
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The Capetonians produced one of their worst performances ever to go down 34-10 at Ellis Park in their first Super Rugby game of the season.
“I watched a replay of the game and yes, I was surprised,” Smith said while his side prepares to tackle the Stormers at Newlands on Friday.
He does, however, expect the Stormers to be much better on their home ground.
“As was the case with us, the Stormers played their first game last weekend. The same happened to the Crusaders last year when they lost to the Blues after having a bye in the first round.
“These things happen. I’m sure the Stormers will be a totally different team this week.”
The Hurricanes themselves lost 27-9 to the Sharks in Durban last week and Smith said they must take their chances this time round.
“We struggled in the scrums early in the game. It’s not like set pieces are a weakness for us but it counts as one of the Sharks and Stormers’ strengths.
“It’s easy for the backs to blame the forwards, but we had enough chances to beat the Sharks. We let ourselves down.”
Friday’s clash kicks off at 19:10.
89 @ Puma:
Oompie Wobbly Knees, show the okes you can post a video too!
They’ll believe me then!
87 @ ufo:
Hope Sharks can win it too bud, but it is still early days. Injuries eventually come in this tourney as well and that alone affects the team sometimes. Much like it did your Stormers and Sharks last year.
I do hope that all saffa teams give the kiwis a good go this year and win over there. That is not only good for this tourney but our Bok rugby.
Stormers will get better bud, you will see this weekend they will beat the Canes. Lions are playing well just have to see how they go against the Bulls this weekend. They too are playing with huge confidence.
Fark, just now Tjarky_Fornever will post some obscene song too… hahahaha
91 @ grootblousmile:
Okay will find one and put it up here.
UFO returns!
Sounds like a headline from Die Son.
Good to. See you here UFO
Good to see Rye has his name back
@Puma, I think everyone except the diehard Lion supporters missed a trick by not picking them on Bru
They will be a popular pick from now on
If the Bulls continue like the 1st few weeks, the Lions might take the spoils. They are running at top speed now and might only hit a speed wobble against the Sharks
@ grootblousmile:
With all these old friends coming back now i wish we can include them in our Prediction game.
@ grootblousmile:
@90 one of the best guitar solos ever. It would be in my top 10 for sure.
David Gilmore was never the flashiest guitarist but he could fill a melody with so much feeling and emotion.
The guy is a genius, plain and simple.
@ grootblousmile:
cool bud… thought so… amazing how some things stick in the mind hey…? i’m not on facebook… but will enjoy the music posts by others…
@ Stormersboy:
hey bud… good to see you here as always…
good for katman…! he sure does… if you’re in contact on Facebook… suggest he comes and struts his stuff here too…! 😆
@ grootblousmile:
As you know I used to blatantly market RT on Voldy and on private email with most of the newcomers here. You should pay me commission lol.
Like any blog site it is what the contributors make of it, and in this case it is going from strength to strength, unlike my beloved team, who by the way, will be back with a vengeance in no time!!!
@ gunther:
hehehe…
how are you good sir…?
good to see you here…
I saw that Coach Pete posted on SuperBru
Think I must private message him to join here as well
Good to get an American Stormer perspective as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ny5ajCn0xw
100 @ ufo:
Sorry, meant YOUTUBE, not bloody Facebook….
Just select the YOUTUBE URL and copy and paste it into a comment.
96 @ gunther:
Since we are on the music theme, and as everyone who knows me knows I live for music, I will post something you probably have never heard or seen before, in homage to The Boss and an awesome 3&1/2 hour concert a few weeks ago:
For those of you who don’t know who Eddie Vedder is, he is the lead singer of Pearl Jam, and he guests with Bruce and The E Street Band here for a cover of ACDC’s Highway to Hell.
Something you don’t see every day 🙂
@ Puma:
sheesh bud… i hope so… was aaying today i’ll have to put on my old wp jersey… 25 years old wp jersey… no branding long sleeves etc… and line up the dops and drink stormers rugby pretty…
thing is the sharks have great player depth… stormers not… we’re already into tail-spinning mode… not sure jaco taute is ready to play… so really hoping he is fully fully fit…
@ nortierd:
Cheers bud… thanks for your assistance with that…
also good to see Rye here…
@ Stormersboy:
yip… genius… love his/their stuff…
97 @ nortierd:
Yes had a feeling they might, as although Stormers have always beaten them at Ellis Park, but not by much. Like the Sharks we struggle with the altitude and the Stormers might, but will be too good. I was wrong, very wrong…hahaha. I think though Stormers will have learned by their mistakes from last week and also have a good look how Sharks beat the Canes. Stormers will win this weekend Nortie.
@ grootblousmile:
oohhh… okay… cool… will see what we can dredge up…
really is an awesome feature…
108 @ ufo:
Still early days in this tourney and think Stormers will bounce back this weekend. Also not that sure about Taute this game will tell us.
On the Eddie Vedder theme, here he is singing Society with Johnny Depp on guitar, who does a pretty good job of it!
101 @ Stormersboy:
Talking about commission… UFO was asking whether you are not our Stormers / WP correspondent… and I made excuses for your lack of contributions for you….
107 @ Stormersboy:
Brilliant enjoyed that.
Eddie has one of the best Rock voices, check out his music for the award winning movie “Into the Wild” if you are interested. Awesome stuff!
EVERYBODY must at least share 1 song… come on NorTIER-DIER, ufo, Herr gunther!
@ grootblousmile:
Yes I have been really swak and must apologize to all here.
I haven’t been able to breathe the past few weeks, never mind post articles but it should start easing up from next week, appointing some extra staff to take some of the load off.
MooosaBull, SuperBlom… Mikey Brass Band… you guys too!
117 @ Stormersboy:
As Loskoppie would say…. DIK SWAK!
Hehehe
UFO’s music knowledge would rival anyone’s I know, and then some. He is fascinating to talk to on this subject.
Come on fella, surprise us!
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