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Van der Merwe and Labuschagne set for Super rugby debut

With Coenie Oosthuizen out injured, and Phillip van der Walt being rested, the chances are good that Marcel van der Merwe, who had a stellar Vodacom Cup tournament for the Cheetahs, and promising young flanker Lappies Labuschagne will get selected for the weekends clash with the Bulls.

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Super Rugby: Lions are here to stay…well thats what the bigwigs say!

Regarding the last few weeks 2013 Super Rugby shenanigans, the GLRU have released the following statement.

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Super Rugby: Stormers vs Cheetahs Match Report – Urghh, A match of two halves

As much as I hate this clichéd saying that every sports commentator has used with gay abandon since the 1980’s, where the English football hacks had run every overused idiom, including this one  into the ground, it is most apt for this game. This really was ”a game of two halves”.

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Stormers 2012 Super Rugby squad contenders (continued) – Full Backs

The last in the Stormers squad instalments, these two make up the back line.

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Stormers 2012 Super Rugby squad contenders (continued) – Wings

The Speedsters, and this is where the Bully boys have helped the Stormers out a bit.

Not a shabby bunch of wingers to boot.

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Stormers 2012 Super Rugby squad contenders (continued) – Centres

The main centre pairing for the Stormers have heaps of experience, but thereafter it wears a bit thin pretty quickly.

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Stormers 2012 Super Rugby squad contenders (continued) – Fly Halves

This is where I expect the debate to really get down and dirty, c’mon fella’s, give it your best shot!

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Stormers 2012 Super Rugby squad contenders (continued) – Scrum Halves

Aaah, the scrummies. Those sniping, yapping little chuahuas amongst the pack of hounds. Potential here? I think so.

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Stormers 2012 Super Rugby squad contenders (continued) – Loosies

This is where the debate starts to get interesting. So much conjecture around Burger, his role and where he should play. With Flo gone, is the fetching role going to be an area of contention?

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Stormers 2012 Super Rugby squad contenders (continued) – Locks

This section deals with the locks for the Stormers. As with the Hookers, I think this is one of the stronger areas of the Stormers team, and when Bekker is back, it will make for one of the better lock combinations in the competition.

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Stormers 2012 Super Rugby squad contenders (continued) – Hookers

The second instalment of the ‘Series de Stormers’, this section deals with the men in the middle.

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Stormers 2012 Super Rugby extended squad contenders – Props

2012 is the year that the Stormers will try to one further than the semi-finals for the 3rd time in a row. If the last two years are anything to go by, and the squad build up that Rassie Erasmus and Allister Coetzee have been trying to achieve, than going all the way should be a given.

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RWC: Sad Sack Sapolu rants on

Samoa’s controversial midfielder Eliota Fuimaono Sapolu may be facing a life ban from the game, but he refuses to go quietly.

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RWC: Samoan TWIT tweeter banned from all rugby

Samoa’s Eliota Fuimaono Sapolu has been banned from playing rugby at all levels after calling Welsh referee Nigel Owens “racist” in a Twitter message following the team’s Rugby World Cup exit.

The centre, who in an earlier post said tournament organisers were guilty of “slavery” for the way they treated teams like Samoa, failed to attend a disciplinary hearing in Auckland on Tuesday.

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