Stormers keeping it simple

THE Stormers’ line-out has been to the garage and the panel beaters a few times this season.

A few weeks ago, t h e i r ma t c h against the Brumbies, they took it to a backyard mechanic. They didn’t have a lot of time to sort things out after the disasters against the Bulls at home and the Cheetahs away in previous weeks.

Most of their forwards were at the Springbok camp

before and only came back on the Thursday before the match against the Brumbies.

They had to do a rush job, just a few necessary tweaks so that their set piece could be declared roadworthy again.

The Stormers still had a few struggles against the Brumbies, but their line-out was in better shape than in the previous couple of weeks.

It was mainly because they kept it simple, with a few balls going to prop Steven Kitshoff right at the front, and plenty to giant lock Eben Etzebeth just behind him.

Now, before this week’s match against the Rebels, the Stormers have had two weeks to try and sort things out.

“We are trying to negate the little mistakes we are making and trying to simplify things. I thought the line-out was quite good in the game against the Brumbies, although were not as accurate as we wanted to be,” said forwards coach Matt Proudfoot.

It is important for the Stormers to get their line-out right, because it would compliment their awesome scrum.

With four games to go and their play-off hopes hanging in the balance, the Stormers can’t afford to get it wrong.