Super 14
Burger set to boost Stormers
Scrum.com
March 1, 2010
Stormers captain Schalk Burger looks to pass during a training session, Stormers training session, High Performance Centre, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa, February 18, 2010
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Schalk Burger is set to boost the Stormers this weekend as they look to bounce back from a last-gasp defeat to the Brumbies at Newlands.

The Springbok flanker missed their first defeat of the season with a hamstring problem but is set to return when they face the Highlanders on Saturday. Prop Wicus Blaauw is also set to return after rejoining training.

Fullback Joe Pietersen missed a potentially match-winning conversion to Pieter Louw's try with the final kick of the game last time out, after George Smith had put the Brumbies ahead with a intercept.

Coach Allister Coetzee was critical of their performance, believing that they had let themselves down following a strong start to the season.

"As a team you have to learn the hard way and take one step back to take a couple of steps forward again," he said. "We let ourselves down badly. We didn't play well at all. Tactically the Brumbies played a very good game. It was difficult to get into their 22 tonight with their long kicks downfield. I think we went off the program a bit with our kicking game.

"We were a bit erratic with ball in hand too, the execution of our kicks wasn't that good. All credit to the Brumbies. They played a bit of test rugby tonight to pin us back and be conservative in their approach and it worked. In the end we made two mistakes in our half, which is out of our kicking system, and it cost us 10 points - a penalty first and the intercept the other time - the only time we didn't kick in our own half."

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