Duane only missing Stormers link

Regular captain and No 8 Duane Vermeulen is the only member of the DHL Stormers touring squad that will not be available for selection for Saturday’s opening game of the four day trip against the Highlanders at Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium.


Stormers coach Allister Coetzee has reported to the Cape rugby media via telephone conference hook-up that the squad has settled down well on the south island – they are actually in the resort town of Queenstown currently – and that every player in the 27 man squad is fully fit and ready to play.


That means that Louis Schreuder, who was concussed…