Gavin Rich belives that it's time for the Stormers and Bulls to be looking up on Supersport.
"If anyone was wondering whether Stormers coach Allister Coetzee had any interest in the Comrades Marathon, the answer was provided at a press conference after the recent match against the Cheetahs.
“We are just starting on Polly Shortts! We are running from Durban to Pietermaritzburg!” said Coetzee.Unless he was departing completely from his usual script of taking it one game at a time and not looking too far ahead, Coetzee could not have meant that. Polly Shortts is the hill on the up Comrades that hits tired runners eight kilometres from the finish of the 87 km epic. It is a challenging hill to run up, make no mistake, but the point is that it is tough because it comes so late in the race.
"If the Stormers think they are at the Polly Shortts of the Super 14 then they are going to blow when they reach the real Polly Shortts, which for them should be the tough last trio of matches against the Crusaders (Newlands), Sharks (Durban) and Bulls (Newlands).
"They have played six games out of the 13 scheduled for the league phase, and as they are about to start their tour, Coetzee is right when he says there is a tough hill in front of them. Only it is Inchanga, the seven kilometre haul out of the halfway point at Drummond, and not Polly Shortts, that confronts their immediate future."
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