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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_stormer2010" data-source="post: 863809" data-attributes="member: 39190"><p>83% success at home this year. Not bad but my point is we were very lucky beating the Blues, just playing out of our skins beating the Chiefs and then it'd have been 4/7 at home with some of those wins against really poor opposition.</p><p></p><p>I don't understand how you can say our injuries aren't severe?! We are without BOTH our 1st choice flyhalves. We have ha to play the entire season without THREE test centers. De Jongh is out again. De Allende is just back in if he is in. Treeby also now out for good measure. We have been without Senatla almost the entire season. If it weren't for Kitshoff we'd have only 1 loosehead standing currently. Remember the middle part of the season we had lost THREE blindside flankers in Elstadt, Wiese and that other young bloke who looks a good prospect but I can't seem to ever remember his name? We've been without Vermaak and Duvenhage on and off. The net effect is our backline has been rejigged from game to game and we are going into the play-offs with no momentum and no proven or settled combinations in the backline.</p><p></p><p>Our last few games have been a heavy loss vs the Sharks and then games we were always expected to win handsomely in the Cheetahs and now Sunwolves. We made a hard fight of it vs the Cheetahs. Some will say the NZ teams will be knackered. I say they will be in fighting shape for the QFs.</p><p></p><p>Am I wrong? I think I am leaning more towards realism than pessimism. I am not saying we can't. Just saying realistically speaking we are a 10 point underdog vs the Chiefs I reckon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_stormer2010, post: 863809, member: 39190"] 83% success at home this year. Not bad but my point is we were very lucky beating the Blues, just playing out of our skins beating the Chiefs and then it'd have been 4/7 at home with some of those wins against really poor opposition. I don't understand how you can say our injuries aren't severe?! We are without BOTH our 1st choice flyhalves. We have ha to play the entire season without THREE test centers. De Jongh is out again. De Allende is just back in if he is in. Treeby also now out for good measure. We have been without Senatla almost the entire season. If it weren't for Kitshoff we'd have only 1 loosehead standing currently. Remember the middle part of the season we had lost THREE blindside flankers in Elstadt, Wiese and that other young bloke who looks a good prospect but I can't seem to ever remember his name? We've been without Vermaak and Duvenhage on and off. The net effect is our backline has been rejigged from game to game and we are going into the play-offs with no momentum and no proven or settled combinations in the backline. Our last few games have been a heavy loss vs the Sharks and then games we were always expected to win handsomely in the Cheetahs and now Sunwolves. We made a hard fight of it vs the Cheetahs. Some will say the NZ teams will be knackered. I say they will be in fighting shape for the QFs. Am I wrong? I think I am leaning more towards realism than pessimism. I am not saying we can't. Just saying realistically speaking we are a 10 point underdog vs the Chiefs I reckon. [/QUOTE]
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