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Stormers vs Reds: Super Rugby live scores, blog

25th May, 2013
Teams

Stormers

1. Steven Kitshoff
2. Tiaan Liebenberg
3. Brok Harris
4. Gerbrandt Grobler
5. Eben Etzebeth
6. Siya Kolisi
7. Don Armand
8. Nizaam Carr
9. Louis Schreuder
10. Elton Jantjies
11. Bryan Habana
12. Damian de Allende
13. Jean de Villiers (c)
14. Gio Aplon
15. Joe Pietersen

Reserves

16. Martin Bezuidenhout
17. Chris Heiberg
18. Marius Coetzer
19. Rohan Kitshoff
20. Dewaldt Duvenage
21. Gary van Aswegen
22. Gerhard van den Heever

Reds

1. Greg Holmes
2. Saia Faingaa
3. James Slipper
4. Rob Simmons
5. James Horwill (c)
6. Jake Schatz
7. Liam Gill
8. Radike Samo
9. Will Genia (vc)
10. Quade Cooper
11. Luke Morahan
12. Anthony Faingaa
13. Chris Feauai-Sautia
14. Rod Davies
15. Jono Lance

Replacements

16. James Hanson
17. Ben Daley
18. Ed O’Donoghue
19. Eddie Quirk
20. Beau Robinson
21. Ben Lucas
22. Ben Tapuai

Kick-Off: 1.05am AEST
Venue: Newlands Stadium
Last Time: Reds 13-23 Stormers
History: Stormers 9, Reds 7
Betting: $1.80 Stormers, $2.02 Reds
TV: Fox Sports 2 (LIVE)
Reds Scott Higgenbothm tackles Stormers player Gerhard Van Den Heever. AAP Image/Dave Hunt
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Round 14 sees a big clash between the 11th-placed Stormers and the fourth-placed Reds at Newlands Stadium. We’ll have live scores and commentary from 1.05am AEST.

The Stormers are coming off of a heartbreaker of a loss against the Melbourne Rebels.

The men from Cape Town lost 30-21 in a performance that coach Allister Coetzee called “embarrassing” after the game.

A stalwart in the top eight for the past few seasons, it has been a poor one so far for the Stormers, who boast a team studded with some of the biggest stars of South African rugby.

The likes of Bryan Habana, Andries Bekker and Jean de Villiers have performed very well of late, but will be looking for their less well known team mates to stand up and produce a home effort at home this weekend against a Reds side looking to get back on track.

The Reds themselves are coming off an uncharacteristically poor performance, having gone down 27-13 to the Cheetahs in the first game of their South African tour.

Captain James Horwill bemoaned the Reds inability to execute the game plan.

“We did all the things that we said we didn’t want to do,” he said after the game.

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The Queenslanders were sloppy in their finishing, having four tries disallowed due to TMO review, and they will be hoping they can improve on that this weekend.

However the loss of a dominant ball carrier and constant threat in Digby Ioane will test the other outside backs who will need to work very hard to make up for his absence.

I don’t see this one bearing a lot of five-pointers and I think it will go down to the wire, but I am saying the Reds will get up by less than six.

Can the Reds keep the pressure on the Brumbies at the top of the Australian Conference, or will the Stormers keep their slim wild card hopes alive with a win?

Find out from 1.05am AEST as we cover the action with live scores and commentary.

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