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Bok star limps off as Glasgow down the Stormers in Stellenbosch

By PA
Johnny Matthews

Champions Glasgow returned to winning ways in the United Rugby Championship as they left it late to secure a 28-17 victory over the Stormers in South Africa.

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After a close opening quarter in which neither team got any points on the board, the hosts thought they had broken the deadlock in the 24th minute but their try was disallowed after the ball went forward off Warrick Gelant’s hand.

Stormers did eventually take the lead 10 minutes later as Gelant’s disguised pass set up Damian Willemse for the opening try, which Manie Libbok converted. But the teams went in level at 7-7 at half-time as Johnny Matthews touched down late in the first half.

Warriors went in front early in the second half as Sione Tuipulotu chased down Sebastian Cancelliere’s kick before going over for his side’s second try, with Adam Hastings adding his second conversion to make it 14-7.

Stormers levelled things up in the 55th minute as Dan du Plessis showed great improvisation to work his way over before Libbok converted his try. Glasgow thought they had responded with a quickfire try but Cancelliere’s effort was disallowed.

Libbok kicked a penalty to put the hosts 17-14 up, only for Kyle Rowe’s brilliant try – converted by Tom Jordan – to give Glasgow a 21-17 lead. And the Warriors made the game safe as Henco Venter scored a bonus-point try, which Jordan converted, in the final 10 minutes.

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DS 117 days ago

What kind of writer uses a headline about an injured bok and then doesn't say who it is in the article?

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Where is the new breed of All Black 10?

NZ Rugby high performance has fallen behind, it used to pump out more quality 10s than it had teams for. Now there are no international quality players coming through the system and the players that are coming through are not getting enough quality minutes driving teams on the field.


JOC was a great pick up for the Crusaders.


Both Rivez and Taha have a lot of potential and some mentoring from a player like JOC could bring their game management, tactical kicking and dealing with the pressure of being the driver of a Super Rugby team at a young age as he has been through it and made a few mistakes in his younger years.


This old school view that NZR has about not selecting any players from overseas is an 80s amateur view.


The ABs don't need to pick the whole squad from overseas but if the had 2-3 players that had already put in some time in Super Rugby it benifits both the ABs and the next level of talent that can build skills in Super Rugby rather than be lost to Japan, the UK or France.


NZR is losing sponsors and players are leaving for the extra dollars earlier in their careers now.


Professional careers are short and the NZR sabbaticals don't cut it anymore for the top elite AB players.


The Japanese League One teams want the big ticket international players for longer contracts to develop more Japan eligible players by playing with these top tier international players for their future and to make a quality depth pool of players for the Japan national team to be higher ranked internationally.


NZR need to get a professional attitude as the current lip service they give makes them look like a 3 ring circus and the ABs slide further from the top the longer this short sighted amateur thinking forms their decisions on key areas which holts professionalism moving forward for rugby in NZ.

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