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, 16:44 pm
ja danger i know
Too bad when i react i get in the nonsens…
16 Aug 2006, 16:46 pm
as a package he is no different than what jake had in his squad. until of course schalk got injured. in he forced big joe into the nr 6 jersey.
16 Aug 2006, 16:46 pm
Supa – let it go – i was just asking – it was more about the original question than anything else.
16 Aug 2006, 16:46 pm
how did you react exactly?
16 Aug 2006, 16:48 pm
big joe should never be on the 6, he is the best 8th man we have, plus when he goes to 6 jake wanna do fucken stupid things like playing jacques cronje there…
16 Aug 2006, 16:49 pm
Good night gentlemen and ladies.
The night is running away from me and I have to rest the old chasis.
16 Aug 2006, 16:50 pm
Kemp
Soos Floors….gee die dude meer game time hy het baie pace….en goeie ball skills……..Tim ook…ek dink hy speel n harde game en die supporters sien nie altyd alles wat hy doen nie….ons het n no nonsense speler nodig….nie n showboat nie………….
16 Aug 2006, 16:50 pm
ja supa, i agee with dangerbot, lets talk about it, open this wound, clean it through a group discussion and maybe cry a little together, then we will feel better and realise, its not is thats a problem on this site, its those dumbasses without a sense of humour, or without a degree in kak-praat..
16 Aug 2006, 16:50 pm
good night mom! good night dad! good night johnboy!
16 Aug 2006, 16:52 pm
i ***-ed my kak praat degree at inbred college. they made me group leader. and supa was maaaad! he thought he was the coolest inbred.
16 Aug 2006, 16:52 pm
Supa
Ag daar is een ding wat jy kan na uit sien….die bulle wat die beeker huis toe bring
16 Aug 2006, 16:52 pm
and what about *****?
16 Aug 2006, 16:53 pm
steyn, ek stem saam met jou. die regte mense vir die job kry nie kans nie, hulle word nie eens na die springbok oefengroep genooi nie. kabamba en tim is honderd keer beter as solly.
16 Aug 2006, 16:53 pm
#260 i think i remember u, i lectured there (with my dr’s degree and all)
16 Aug 2006, 16:53 pm
sorry *****, come let me give you a hug.
apies kyk *****!
16 Aug 2006, 16:54 pm
What about you.
16 Aug 2006, 16:54 pm
Kemp
Ja kemp….ons rugby gaan nooit reg kom nie…..ek het gedink Jake is ok in die begin…..maar nou maak hy my net bang
16 Aug 2006, 16:54 pm
where you the pretty teacher with the 3 boobs and one arm?
16 Aug 2006, 16:55 pm
kemp, tim is badly injured, kabambe not consistant, luke, jaques botes, aj are all much better…
16 Aug 2006, 16:56 pm
Yes *****
But we are looking at the point they made about the player they need to pick…so then Floors will be the best option now…………
16 Aug 2006, 16:56 pm
julle manne cheer n ou op ****!
Pouse was die snaakste by inbred college as al die inbreds gelyk die klok wil lui en na broodjies gryp!
16 Aug 2006, 16:56 pm
kyk ryna apies he…
i am pretty yes, but have two “natal-coaches” (didnt wanna say dicks) not three boobs, she was only my nifty shift assistant…
16 Aug 2006, 16:56 pm
*****
You can’t use AJ as a fetcher buddy…not going to work
16 Aug 2006, 16:58 pm
was daar pouses, i just thought my lectures were above their inbed intakes? my major was kakpraat though, not inbreeding, not after the nasty incident with my someones’ cousin that coaches wp
16 Aug 2006, 16:58 pm
hahaha, she was foxy!
she could roll her tongue into a….uhm…sorry. got a bit carried away.
mom said only one thing at a time.
finger to nose…find big goo!
16 Aug 2006, 16:58 pm
LMAO at 268 and 272
*****
ek en my broer het altyd as ons langs sy meise in die mall stap geskree “Ryna, Ryna” en haar arm gegryp! Sy wou haar dood skaam!
16 Aug 2006, 16:59 pm
Supa
Was jy nie altyd die een wat by die venster in afrikaans gesit het nie….en dan staar jy uit die venster……en dan kry jy n PK van daai juffrou……die een met die skewe bene
16 Aug 2006, 17:00 pm
Steyn but u can use him as the enforcer (lekker woord) and juan can fetch (if jake’s kid can, so can juan) but i would still prefer luke on 6 with AJ on the bench…
16 Aug 2006, 17:00 pm
Bokinozzie,
I don’t think our opinions are that far from one another so I will just leave it at that.
16 Aug 2006, 17:01 pm
276, **** supa, i think i know you. we used to do that too!
16 Aug 2006, 17:01 pm
Wow.
16 Aug 2006, 17:01 pm
steyn, daai en met die skewe bene het nie altyd skewe bene gehad nie. of hoe supa???
16 Aug 2006, 17:02 pm
ja steyn, die juffrou met die oog op haar…ons het dit n PKGT genoem – PK grond toe!
16 Aug 2006, 17:02 pm
he he supa… saw that chameleon character the other day and he was the Kyk die apies Ryna dude… ha ha, i also pulled that move with some of my ex-es, needless to say, they are ex-es..
16 Aug 2006, 17:02 pm
lol @ danger
Jy is nie dalk dangerboy nie????
16 Aug 2006, 17:04 pm
shhhht, they called me that at college. but the police are looking for me so had to change it to dangerbot. misspelt snot.
16 Aug 2006, 17:05 pm
Onthou julle die hoof met blykbaar twee poepolle? Hy was mos so gewild onder die wp ondersteuners? Hy het hulle so twee-twee ingeroep!
16 Aug 2006, 17:05 pm
“my juffrou could give me a PK cause her ‘natal coach’ always got in the way” quoted by one of my students who first was a student at the wp rugby academy and had to come for help…
16 Aug 2006, 17:06 pm
LOL 287
16 Aug 2006, 17:07 pm
supa yeah!! i remember him. uhm…eddie something.
steady eddie!! that’s it.
16 Aug 2006, 17:07 pm
see my student in 288 coul even say couldnt, he was so traumitised…
16 Aug 2006, 17:08 pm
or was it fester, now im so inbrededly confucked…
16 Aug 2006, 17:09 pm
And that oak with the two tonques! The ladies loved him!
16 Aug 2006, 17:09 pm
that bloke
16 Aug 2006, 17:10 pm
Danger
was dit nie
Bolla….hmmmm…..bolla holla……maar ek dink dit was by die laerskool
16 Aug 2006, 17:10 pm
some okes loved him too mos.
16 Aug 2006, 17:12 pm
or Sick Joe van Kneecap…
16 Aug 2006, 17:12 pm
Gareth
I enjoyed your argument.
It was great chatting.
We are not too far off with our opinions – have a good evening.
16 Aug 2006, 17:13 pm
People this is not a porn chat site.
16 Aug 2006, 17:13 pm
myne!
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