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, 15:52 pm
Supa jy moet meer uitgaan
Dai ou is ‘n top comedian.
Nie soos El Debbo hulle nie.
Hy laat mense lag
16 Aug 2006, 15:53 pm
right guys – kiss and make up. a good windup is healthy but don’t get personal.
16 Aug 2006, 15:54 pm
It has nothing to do with there comment – if someone wants to take a shot who cares ? Reacting is what they want. You still haven’t answered the original question in 141
16 Aug 2006, 15:55 pm
This blog looks interesting!!
16 Aug 2006, 15:55 pm
cfg
Who you talking about?
ig
What comment i asked? The inbred one!
16 Aug 2006, 15:56 pm
supa
u did, u called us inbreds, remember
srem, jammer om van jou kak te ****, JHB…
16 Aug 2006, 15:57 pm
Supa
Die ou in die CC advert Stuart Taylor
16 Aug 2006, 15:57 pm
wp faithful , Ha sal weet terug wees in Kaap binnekort , Ek werk daaraan.
16 Aug 2006, 15:57 pm
What do you call someone watching the boks beat the All blacks on TV?
Luke Watson.
Why you ask?
Because he is not a BOK!
Why?
Because he cant play in the S14!
16 Aug 2006, 15:57 pm
ig
what the hell is in 141???? Which comment, so i can answer you???????
16 Aug 2006, 15:57 pm
srem
i will go to newlands and drink a dop for u on wp!!
16 Aug 2006, 15:58 pm
Hy bedoel 140 Supa
16 Aug 2006, 15:58 pm
Ball carries per game
watson: 12
McCaw: 14
Tackles per game
watson: 16
McCaw: 17
Balls slowed per game
watson:9
McCaw:8
Turnovers created per game
watson:2
McCaw:3
Effective cleans per game
watson:8
McCaw:10
And according to Verusco Systems Watson was the only loose forward to come close to McCaws stats.
Taking from SI mag.
Very Average
16 Aug 2006, 15:58 pm
cfb
o thanx. Het al vergeet ek het gevra.
16 Aug 2006, 15:59 pm
Good , Maybe I must go to Ellispark and drink a dop on the Shark lost.
16 Aug 2006, 15:59 pm
Ek het kaartjies van Momentum gekry
16 Aug 2006, 15:59 pm
srem
hope 4 yr part it is sooner rather than later, u might just get corrupted, and start supporting bulls, ha ha ha, just joking
16 Aug 2006, 15:59 pm
Sorry Supa #140
16 Aug 2006, 16:00 pm
Thanks Gareth
16 Aug 2006, 16:00 pm
gareth – is that for 1 game or is it an average for the season?
16 Aug 2006, 16:00 pm
ig
Ek weet nie watter comment jy van praat nie, maar as hulle so met my praat gaan ek terug so praat.
16 Aug 2006, 16:00 pm
supa
is jy ok??
16 Aug 2006, 16:01 pm
thank u gareth, just proves again what a knopkop jake is
16 Aug 2006, 16:01 pm
o ja Ig
n lady nee, maar as sy nie n lady is nie is dit al wat sy verstaan…
16 Aug 2006, 16:01 pm
Waar is Stan?
16 Aug 2006, 16:01 pm
…
16 Aug 2006, 16:02 pm
wpfaith
Eks fine. Probeer net uitvind waarvan Ig praat.
Ig,
is dit Ladylike om so te praat soos sy???
16 Aug 2006, 16:02 pm
no supa, u never ever talk to a woman like that, no matter WHAT!!
16 Aug 2006, 16:03 pm
Jake moet die Bulls loop coach, want hulle het ‘n transformasie probleem vir Vrydag se match!
16 Aug 2006, 16:04 pm
supa
ek weetok nie, did not c a bad comment, just usual..
16 Aug 2006, 16:05 pm
eloise
what u did to supa?
16 Aug 2006, 16:05 pm
Wp faith
Stats are sometimes made up but more can be read in to them.
Ball carries – we hope in the right direction or that is the best option.
balls slowed per game – did this result in a penalty / did it give the other team a chance to take other options / where territorially did this happen.
Are these stats based on one game or several and are they against big games.
16 Aug 2006, 16:05 pm
182
16 Aug 2006, 16:06 pm
wpfaith
Do you know her? Do you even know if she is a women? So what you saying is, a women is alowwed to say what they want, but not a man?
16 Aug 2006, 16:06 pm
Supa – i don’t know it bugs me a little that folks folks lose normal social decorum becasue they are hidden behind a nickname or a keyboard. If someone slags you off and you repsond in a simialr manner you just going to their level. Dawns comment was nasty, but speaking to a woman in such a manner is just wrong IMO
16 Aug 2006, 16:06 pm
Dont know wp but he’s on my case…dink hy smaak ‘n stukkie lip
16 Aug 2006, 16:07 pm
bok in ozzie
are u not suppose to be asleep with time difference, again, what do u care, u obviously not wp supporter
16 Aug 2006, 16:07 pm
Sorry 182 was meant for gareth but wp faithful can enlighten himself as well.
16 Aug 2006, 16:08 pm
eloise
stukkie lip?? ouch
16 Aug 2006, 16:08 pm
Thats the averages for the entire s14
16 Aug 2006, 16:09 pm
supa
no, do not know her, but u now like me the other day when u called me paloeka, remember….
come, let’s move on, and not talk to dawn anymore
16 Aug 2006, 16:09 pm
(190)
Then mccaw is superior – how many games did watson play in this years S14?
16 Aug 2006, 16:09 pm
Supa is maar ‘n ou bokdrol..of buldrol,sorry
16 Aug 2006, 16:10 pm
bok in ozzie
see, WHOLE season, i.e., it confirms what i said, luke is best in world after mccauw, u should have known that seeing u get up BEFORE us, but then again, u probably a slow bull supporter
16 Aug 2006, 16:11 pm
bokin ozzie
what state in oz u live in, as i believe some states are just for slow people, like u..
16 Aug 2006, 16:12 pm
LUKE will rep the Babbas
16 Aug 2006, 16:12 pm
supa
16 Aug 2006, 16:12 pm
Ig… good comment…
16 Aug 2006, 16:12 pm
Weepee 199
Bulls 0
16 Aug 2006, 16:13 pm
BokinOzzie know-one is disputing that McCaw is the best.
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