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Springboks centre Jaque Fourie scored two high-quality tries on Friday as the Stormers outplayed the seven-time Super 14 champion Canterbury Crusaders 42-14.
Fourie beat four defenders as he ran 50 metres for the Stormers’ first try, then finished a sublime backline move in the final minute to help the Cape Town team to their eighth win in 11 games.
Flyhalf Peter Grant kicked 27 points to make amends for a mistake that gave opposite number Daniel Carter an early try for Canterbury.
Winger Sireli Naqelevuki scored between the posts to round off a Stormers’ counter attack in the 73rd minute.
Colin Slade touched down for a late consolation for New Zealand’s Crusaders before Fourie ran in his second try of the night.
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May 1st 2010 @ 7:33am
pothale said | May 1st 2010 @ 7:33am | Report comment
Stomers on form and crusaders crashing at the sharp end of the season.
So can the Reds and Tahs make em pay and knock ‘em out of the top four?
May 1st 2010 @ 9:19am
Frank O'Keeffe said | May 1st 2010 @ 9:19am | Report comment
I didn’t see the game, but shouldn’t the Stormers have aimed for a bonus point? No point winning by that margin if you don’t score four tries really…
May 1st 2010 @ 10:26am
ohtani's jacket said | May 1st 2010 @ 10:26am | Report comment
They didn’t score their second and third try until the 73rd and 80th minute.
May 1st 2010 @ 10:39am
James D said | May 1st 2010 @ 10:39am | Report comment
This was a fantastic game of rugby – the number of penalty goals doesnt matter -both teams left everything out on the paddock. Helluva lot more than could be said for the tahs.
May 1st 2010 @ 11:11am
ISO said | May 1st 2010 @ 11:11am | Report comment
At this stage of the S14 and the log status, a bonus point is a “Nice to have”. Of course, depending where the team is on the log. Being the final count down, it is certainly points that the top teams have to focus on.
The Stormers played an outstanding game! It was evident that the Crusaders were shocked – why? Can it be complancency due to their historical record in the main?
They effectively countered the mauls, not surprisingly as the previous matches are clinically disected and studied – no harm in that.
Jaque Fourie was outstanding – a huge chunk of flesh with innate speed and a rapid eye.
It was a 15-man game by and large. Andries Bekker, Schalk Burger and the rest contributed to one of the most exciting tests in years.
Ref & TMO’s unmoved and entirely clinical – great one there to Australian ref!
Perhaps the greatest, yet single problem is this untimeous implementation of the new rules both to coaches & teams, never mind differing judgements made (generalising) by Refs et al. IMO that is perhaps the greatest control mechanism which has been inadequately addressed and applied timeously and consistently.
May 1st 2010 @ 3:52pm
adam said | May 1st 2010 @ 3:52pm | Report comment
j,fourie scored 2 of the best trys seen in a long time
stormers are looking dam good
May 1st 2010 @ 4:35pm
johno said | May 1st 2010 @ 4:35pm | Report comment
The opening fifteen minutes were brutal. The Crusaders were puting in huge hits and it seemed as if the Stomers were a bit shell shocked. But then they woke up and became equally physical. McCaw and cronies were penalised at the ruck for what we have all been complaining about for the last five years.
They don’t roll away don’t release and if they do roll away they take up the space on the the opposing side of the ruck. if the game gets blown in this way McCaw is made not the player that deserves two IRB awards. He’s a grafter, but he’s not as special as perceived to be. Carter is seriously out of form, and it looks like he’s carrying an injury.
Fourie made his opposing centre look like a second team player and Richie tergeted Schalk Burger for some personal attention at three rucks which may have sparked the Stomers revival from their slumber, well it did the trick for Schalk at least. He never passed the ball after those encounters, he just bashed everything, or tried to at least.
It may have been the most physical encounter yet after the Blues Bulls affair, but the Sharks Bulls smack down at a sold out three days in advance Loftus is going to be a rip roaring beat down of an intensity that only South African derbys can dish up when it comes to physicality. And yes prime evil, the Darth Vader of the rugby world is back at Loftus today. Bakkies will once again be putting a shiver back into his oponents spines. Contrary to popular beleif this is not due to the fact that he wears a big black oxygen mask that covers his whole head, which he doesn’t, but because if you are in an opposing team he’s just hit you so hard your fillings are all loose and your false teeth all come out with your mouthguard now.
May 1st 2010 @ 10:04pm
Wavell Wakefield said | May 1st 2010 @ 10:04pm | Report comment
‘if you are in an opposing team he’s just hit you so hard your fillings are all loose and your false teeth all come out with your mouthguard now.’
Lol. Unless you are Simon Shaw or Lionel Nallet.
May 2nd 2010 @ 9:43am
van der Merwe said | May 2nd 2010 @ 9:43am | Report comment
Lol. He shattered Nallet’s breastbone.
May 2nd 2010 @ 9:20pm
Wavell Wakefield said | May 2nd 2010 @ 9:20pm | Report comment
Erm… no he didn’t. Did you miss the Autumn tests? The problem with playing the big man is that there is always someone bigger and better…
May 3rd 2010 @ 12:00pm
van der Merwe said | May 3rd 2010 @ 12:00pm | Report comment
Erm… yes he did. The incident happened in 2005. A little before your time?
May 6th 2010 @ 7:50pm
Wavell Wakefield said | May 6th 2010 @ 7:50pm | Report comment
I recall the tests for exactly the same reason as you, but I don’t recall the injury, nor can I find any evidence of it. Btw, what is funny about that and what does it prove? Why the ‘lol’?
May 1st 2010 @ 5:17pm
ThelmaWrites said | May 1st 2010 @ 5:17pm | Report comment
The Crusaders were heavily penalised for various ruck and offside infractions against the Force, in what the commentator called “the battle of the backrows”. One would have thought that they then would have learned their lesson. Instead, in the Stormers game, McCaw is warned in the 32nd minute, and Reid is yellow-carded in the 37th minute.
The Crusaders did change their tactics in the line-outs. Instead of contesting the line-out, they prepared themselves for the ensuing mall.
As for the Stormers, after a sensational game offloading at speed against the Chiefs, they revert to the pick-and-drive against the Force and the Crusaders. Maybe that’s why their tries came in the 41st, 72nd, and 79th minute against the Crusaders, and as OJ says they missed a 4-try bonus point.
May 1st 2010 @ 9:56pm
Sylvester said | May 1st 2010 @ 9:56pm | Report comment
The Crusaders game plan of kicking away every piece of possession, the little they did have to start with, made no sense. Made worse by how average the kicking was.
They defended well for the most part, until the schoolboyish attempts leading to first the Fourie try, but their attack was woeful.
May 2nd 2010 @ 12:36pm
Steve said | May 2nd 2010 @ 12:36pm | Report comment
What a game, not just that. Don’t stop there, if Stu Dickinson does not get the Super 14 final then its not right.
May 2nd 2010 @ 4:27pm
Vhavnal said | May 2nd 2010 @ 4:27pm | Report comment
Impressive display by the stormers defensively and on attack, I also hoped they scored 4 tries as it may have sealed their semi-final spot. Bulls are already in and stormers need to win against the sharks (with bonus points) next week to stand any chance of hosting a semi-final most possible against the team that bear them, the reds