Pumas in for Louw blow
16 Aug 2006
With Justin Melck out injured, SA U21 loose forward Pieter Louw gets his first start for Vodacom Western Province this season.
Due to the successful back row combination of Melck, Luke Watson and Robbie Diack, as well as Kobus van der Merwe’s inclination to stick with a winning formula, Louw has received minimal game time this season. This seems surprising considering his pedigree, as the 21-year old represented his country at the U21 World Championship in France earlier this year, and was also a part of the same team who won the tournament in 2005.
“There is a lot of competition in the side at the moment, and the loosies have been playing particularly well,” Louw told keo.co.za. “It’s good to be in a team where you have a lot of guys pushing for a spot in the starting line-up.”
Melck has not yet recovered from the thumb injury he sustained against Griquas a fortnight ago, and so Louw replaces him on the side of the WP scrum. He helped the Baby Boks win the World Championship in Argentina last year at No 8, but feels that he is versatile enough to perform just as well on the flank.
“I’m looking forward to playing at No 7. I am one who believes that a loose forward has to be good at everything. You need to be a strong ball-carrier, quick to the ball on the ground, and of course, uncompromising on defence.
“We haven’t decided whether myself and Luke will play as two fetchers or as a regular blindside and openside. It will depend on the particular situation we find ourselves in against the Pumas.”
Getting back into a winning team is not easy for a player returning from injury, as Ross Skeate and Andries Bekker discovered recently. Current WP second rowers Francois van der Merwe and Gerrie Britz have done well in the stead of Skeate and Bekker, who both got crocked ahead of the Absa Currie Cup opener. Skeate and Bekker should return at some stage, but with the incumbents performing, the WP coaching staff will be reluctant to make a change just yet.
With Melck out, Louw is aware of the similar opportunity that has been set before him. “I now have a great chance to go out there and show my coach what I can do. I’ve been looking forward to getting a full 80 minutes, so I’ll be sure not to waste the opportunity.
“Running out at Newlands for the first time is also something I’ve been looking forward to all season. Griquas showed us that we can’t take the smaller unions for granted. That was a fantastic game, they pushed us, but we held out and won the match.
“The Pumas have struggled this year, but we won’t make the mistake of underestimating them.”
By Jon Cardinelli
309 Comments
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16 Aug 2006, 15:11 pm
srem, ou jurgens kan nie lees nie, that’s why he is so confused about who is the best team, and now he supports the wrong one, as he is colorblind as well
16 Aug 2006, 15:12 pm
***** en jurgens
no matter what u say, wp is on top of log with bulls lingering behind
16 Aug 2006, 15:14 pm
Jurgens #25, that’s your opinion and it is not shared by a great number of people, including people who know rugby as well as statisticians.
*****, you think you’re funny but you’re not. You’re just crude.
16 Aug 2006, 15:14 pm
wp faithful
that I know, but what does that to do with the way Luke played in the S14?
16 Aug 2006, 15:14 pm
WP , hoop julle kry vol punte , nou soek ons vol punte elke naweek. Volgende week le ‘n hard game voor.
16 Aug 2006, 15:14 pm
i guess being rated as the top 3 loosies in the comp does not make you a good player.
16 Aug 2006, 15:14 pm
….
16 Aug 2006, 15:15 pm
Windhoek.Lager
stats show that he had a below than average S14 compared to other flankers
16 Aug 2006, 15:16 pm
WP Faithful
Luke is my servant but if want him as King that is okay. he needs peasants as well to form a Kraal.
16 Aug 2006, 15:16 pm
Really Jurgens? Which stats? Please post the URL.
16 Aug 2006, 15:17 pm
Windhoek.Lager
ask suparugby he has them all
16 Aug 2006, 15:17 pm
(58)
Supa be careful Ig will be on to you.
16 Aug 2006, 15:17 pm
dangerbot
are u prefering the the CC Comp or S14?
16 Aug 2006, 15:18 pm
59, you know full well that is a load of ****.
16 Aug 2006, 15:18 pm
Jurgens, do you mean to say that you haven’t personally seen these stats?
16 Aug 2006, 15:19 pm
s14
16 Aug 2006, 15:19 pm
Windhoek.Lager
supa and I had a good look at most of them on a previous thread go and check in the arcive
16 Aug 2006, 15:19 pm
Jurgens hoe is Durban vandag
Ek kom bietjie kuier more
16 Aug 2006, 15:19 pm
Oh humble apologies Windoek poof Lager, did i poke at the wrong hole? And all faithfull, an experemetal SHARK team is just 3 points behind you, beat you on your own backsideyard and will from now on play their full strength side…
Those wp-”men” are **** scared now…
16 Aug 2006, 15:19 pm
Jurgens you dom idiot , making up your own stats as you go along
16 Aug 2006, 15:20 pm
capeflatsboy
koud en dit reen , onthou net day Ulundi nie die hoofstad is nie
16 Aug 2006, 15:20 pm
Nee ek gaan nie Ulundi toe nie
Gaan na die Point
16 Aug 2006, 15:21 pm
capeflats , yep you will find jurgens there .
16 Aug 2006, 15:22 pm
Where?
16 Aug 2006, 15:23 pm
*****
Was it is the Sharks experimental team that lost the Cheetahs at Kings Park and to Griquas in Kimberly??
16 Aug 2006, 15:25 pm
Jurgens, I’ll try to find it. If you can post a URL, please do so.
*****, I don’t know which hole you poked at. Are you blind as well? You appear to have some unresolved issues with your sexual orientation and are trying to mask it with a combination of foul-mouthed aggression and homophobic blustering. Your latest post has merely strengthened my original opinion of you, your morals, your sense of self-worth and your intellect.
16 Aug 2006, 15:25 pm
Yip, spook they did, but not against the bumchums…
The cheetah game we had a 70% proper team, but it was good to test dfferent palyer and broaden your base at those stages…
16 Aug 2006, 15:25 pm
here we go again. please people this subject has been flogged to death. LUKE WATSON will not be called up by Jake.
Judge a player on the S14 – Luke was average. as a wp supporter i can at least say he has had a good cc so far so lets see what he does in the s14. if he excels then we can riot.
16 Aug 2006, 15:28 pm
*****…what is a palyer?????
16 Aug 2006, 15:28 pm
70% of all stats are made up on the spot.
16 Aug 2006, 15:29 pm
*****
no one is scared of yr guppie team, and they will also lose this weekend by 4 points, jackass
16 Aug 2006, 15:29 pm
Deja vu.
16 Aug 2006, 15:29 pm
hey guys, ***** is a gatgabba
16 Aug 2006, 15:30 pm
Oh Dawn,
I love it when you talk foreign.
16 Aug 2006, 15:30 pm
I prefer Amstel anyway Windhoek…
But I’m so astound that because i poke fun at your free willy team that all of a sudden you can (without broad shoulders to take it on the chin
)come to such deeper found and incrdibly touching conclusions.. I almost phoned my *** wp supporter frien to have a heart to heart, but found it of no need after countless seconds of self evaluation… Thanx for caring tho…
Bak to rugby, Aplon is way too small… Ha ha…
16 Aug 2006, 15:31 pm
Martin wat werk jy miskien vir Shoprite?
Of is jy ‘n security guard?
16 Aug 2006, 15:31 pm
16 Aug 2006, 15:31 pm
lol 84…
and sorry 79 , a palyer is a typo…
16 Aug 2006, 15:32 pm
So ***** is that how it works, when the Sharks win, its a full strength team, but win they lose, it was a “B” team where **** Muir was just trying new combinations.
Interesting?
16 Aug 2006, 15:32 pm
Look, let’s settle this once and for all. WP are top of the log. we are the best. with the best captain and best players and best stadium and best pubs and best beaches and best women. our grass even grows better.
WE ARE THE BEST, ALRIGHT!
16 Aug 2006, 15:32 pm
Ag Bulle shut up, you guys are a bunch of losers at the moment and you just cant take it. Province is the best side in the CC at the moment, they have the momentum,the most log point and the inform players…What do you guys have?A bunch of injured players,3 losses at Moftus, a idiot for a captain and a predictable game plan…
O,Please…
16 Aug 2006, 15:34 pm
Don’t forget their slow backline that looks maore at home in the front row, their lack of intelligence and a gameplan that can bore a sloth to sleep.
16 Aug 2006, 15:34 pm
90, martin, there you go.
16 Aug 2006, 15:34 pm
*****
aplon will run around brent russel and the whole of the guppie team
by the way, what will yr excuse be after this w/e loss??
16 Aug 2006, 15:35 pm
Capeflats – actually, i’m the bum that sits outside begging for money to buy booze to drown my sorrows and to take away the pain of the boks losing all the time. why? do you have a job for me?
16 Aug 2006, 15:35 pm
Congratulations Pieter… Make the most of your first run-on and make us proud…!!
16 Aug 2006, 15:35 pm
martin
drink jy so vroeg in die dag?
16 Aug 2006, 15:35 pm
Didnt read carefully spook? I did say that it was a near full strength team that lost against a good Cheetah side… The griquas was a total experimental side, and interesting one with lots of potential none the less…
16 Aug 2006, 15:35 pm
O and your taste in music “SUCKS” bigtime!
16 Aug 2006, 15:36 pm
spokie
do not forget they have old steve MOFMEYER who bonks the whole team BEFORE each game..
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