Mujati concern for Stormers
7 Jan 2009
A shoulder injury incurred on the Springboks’ UK tour could rule Brian Mujati out of the Stormers’ warm-up fixture against Saracens.
Head coach Rassie Erasmus told keo.co.za Mujati’s involvement in the 25 January fixture is ‘touch and go’ at present. The tighthead injured his shoulder against Scotland last November, but still played off the bench against England the very next week.
The Boks were at that stage facing a front row crisis, with Gurthro Steenkamp and Bismarck du Plessis sent home due to injury. Nevertheless, the Stormers may begin the 2009 season without their first-choice No 3.
“The Boks didn’t recognise it as a serious injury right away and I think that was the problem,” Erasmus said. “We will wait until he has recovered fully before considering him for Saracens.”
Erasmus said Conrad Jantjes (groin), Schalk Burger (ankle) and Willem de Waal (hand) are all battling niggling injuries. The good news is players like Gcobani Bobo, Adriaan Fondse and AJ Venter have shown significant progress since succumbing to serious injuries at the end of last season.
The Stormers coach believes his second season in charge will be different as he has wealth of experience to draw on. The Cape franchise were hit by injuries towards the end of the 2008 competition, and the lack of depth was an issue.
The Stormers have also altered their pre-season programme with two friendlies scheduled for late January.
“Time will tell whether it was a good decision to opt for warm up games against both and Saracens and Boland,” said Erasmus. “If we can avoid serious injuries in those games, then I’ll be happy.
“On the other hand I’m glad that we have two games before the season starts. I feel our match fitness was a bit off at the start of last year’s competition, and we only started to show good match fitness from games two and three.”
Erasmus will meet with Bok coach Peter de Villiers on 13 January to discuss various issues including the management of top Test players during the Super 14. The final Stormers squad of 34 is due to be announced on 19 January.
By Jon Cardinelli
488 Comments
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7 Jan 2009, 23:09 pm
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7 Jan 2009, 23:26 pm
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8 Jan 2009, 08:11 am
#163 JC:
I have no problem with you making deductions based on what you saw (you were there not so) because you probably had the better view from all of us.
The problem I have in a sense is that the deductions were based on opinion passed as fact in this instance.
The tone of what was written in the magazine in the article was to the effect of the injury was manufactured by the management because of ‘their lack of faith in Mujati’s abilities’ (were the words you used in the article I believe).
Only now, do we (including you) find out the injury was in fact more serious than first thought.
If the management could be accused of anything it was that they did not properly assess the injury after the Scotland match and therefore had to make a decision on the Sunday to bring CJ in already and not give Mujati till the last minute.
The main thing here is your deduction in the article in the magazine took a clear swipe at the Bok coaching and management team (as the media has done throughout 2008) questioning their acumen or ability. You got it wrong.
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