/ 28 April 1999

‘STORMERS PHYSICALLY INFERIOR’

SHARKS lock Mark Andrews has angered Cape Town saying the Auckland Blues can beat the Stormers, and been labeled a “turncoat” by the media. “The Blues are more physical than the Stormers, who have the skills but not he same intensity,” Andrews told a New Zealand newspaper. The Stormers, one of the form side of this year’s competition, face the Blues on Saturday at Newlands. The Zealand team, who won the Super 12 competition for the first two years of its inception, were beaten last Saturday 12-6 by the Sharks. But Andrews did say they were not the team they once were: “The Blues have got the same intensity, motivation and commitment. In the past when they tried something, it came off. But now they seem hesitant to try things, they haven’t got the same assuredness.”