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Stormers smash Rebels

Stormers smash Rebels

06/03/2011 11:50:47 AM

South African powerhouse the Stormers completed a successful Australian odyssey with a 40-3 demolition of Melbourne Rebels at AAMI Park on Friday night.

Inspired by a virtuoso performance from fly-half Kurt Coleman, the visitors made it two wins from two on their Down Under tour in fairly comfortable fashion.

While they left it until late to seal the bonus point, it was an impressive display by the Stormers who ground the home side into the ground.

The Rebels again lacked any real cutting edge in attack and expectedly slumped to their seventh successive defeat.

The Stormers laid the foundation during the opening 40 minutes on the back of superior possession and territory.

Even though they crossed for just the one try during that period courtesy of electric winger Bryan Habana, the Stormers built a 16-3 lead and blunted the Rebels in the process.

Melbourne's only joy for the match came through a Julian Huxley penalty goal on 14 minutes, which levelled proceedings at 3-3.

But less than three minutes later it was 10-3 after Habana scythed his way through the Rebels defensive line following a scrum deep inside the home side's 22.

Coleman nailed two further penalties to stretch the gap to 13 points and he was the man to put the result in no doubt after half-time.

On the back of relentless pressure, the ball was promoted through the hands to Coleman, who produced a fine right-foot step to beat Mark Gerrard.

His subsequent conversion made it 23-3 and the Stormers drove another dagger through Rebels' hearts thanks to a flowing backline movement just three minutes later.

The spark was provided by a blockbusting burst from centre inside Jean de Villiers, who surged through some patchy defence into open field, then passed the football to Gio Apton.

The flying winger then set up de Villiers' centre partner Jaque Fourie and the Springbok international out-sprinted Julian Huxley to score in the corner.

The Stormers added the icing to the cake with two tries in the dying moments, the first coming through interchange Nick Koster before de Villiers rounded things out with his 79th minute try.

One highlight for the Rebels was the return from injury of hooker Adam Freier, who saw more than half an hour of action.

Stormers 40
Tries: Bryan Habana, Kurt Coleman, Jaque Fourie, Nick Koster, Jean de Villiers
Penalties: Kurt Coleman 3
Conversions: Kurt Coleman 2, Earl Rose

Rebels 3
Penalties: Julian Huxley

Crowd: 15,238 at AAMI Park.

 
Photograph Copyright : Getty Images

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