SUPER RUGBY COUNTDOWN
Bulls and Stormers full of early promise
Reading too much into scores at this stage of the year in the Super Rugby competition is often misleading
If preseason form is anything to go by, the Stormers and Bulls will be SA’s leading Super Rugby contenders‚ but reading too much into scores at this stage of the year is often misleading. The Stormers won all three of their Super Rugby warm-up games – beating the Cheetahs 43-7 in Harare‚ the SWD Eagles 57-14 in George and the Lions 57-40 at Newlands – to lay down a marker of sorts. The Bulls beat the Lions 38-17 in Harare and the Chiefs 28-7 in Brisbane and they also played in the Brisbane 10s‚ which was more about fitness than anything. That fact that the Stormers conceded five tries against the Lions underlines that the match was about attacking plays rather than defence. Every match has had a specific focus‚ so it is difficult to gauge exactly how good each team have been. In terms of pure results, the Stormers are the early-season pacesetters with the Bulls‚ but gauging a season on preseason results is superficial. Lions coach Johan Ackermann was seemingly unconcerned about leak...
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