The Stormers have lost one of their hottest attacking sparks to concussion ahead of Saturday’s Investec Champions Cup showdown against Bristol Bears, leaving Evan Roos to shoulder the number eight jersey as Cape Town prepares…
Legacy in the jersey. Magic in the air. 🖤🏉
Former Stormers captain Corne Krige handed out the Men in Black jerseys, while Seabelo Senatla channelled Breyton Paulse with a spectacular flick-flack celebration. Ruhan Nel and the Stormers had plenty to savour after their 39-22 URC coastal derby triumph over the Sharks at DHL Stadium.
From Krige’s legacy to Senatla’s acrobatics, this was Stormers rugby with history and flair.
The Stormers’ forwards battered Connacht into submission with a relentless carrying game, but Rito Hlungwani wants more from the backs. “Don’t feel sorry for our forwards,” he says. The message ahead of Edinburgh is clear: the pack will create the space, the backs must be smarter enough to exploit it.
🏉 The Stormers have loaded the cannon. A 56-man squad. 17 internationals. 15 Springboks. Four Junior Springbok champions. 18 players from the historic 2021/22 URC-winning squad.And Siya Kolisi, Cheslin Kolbe and Wilco Louw are back in Cape Town.John Dobson says this is the deepest Stormers squad in recent seasons. Project 2029 is gathering serious momentum
They had arrived with plenty of scepticism surrounding them. The pre-match noise suggested the All Blacks would turn the occasion into a slaughterhouse. Instead, the Stormers stood toe-to-toe with one of rugby’s giants and briefly had them wobbling.
Yaqeen “The Chef” Ahmed is stepping into rugby’s hottest kitchen for his DHL Stormers debut. The ingredients are ready.
The oven is blazing. Now it’s time to see what The Chef serves against the All Blacks.
The DHL Stormers have spent the past fortnight staring into the rear-view mirror of a bruising Welsh ambush. Cardiff marched into the previous meeting and clipped the Cape side’s wings with a gritty 22-16 victory…
“To understand what this team was going through, or what Chippie meant to us and to this organisation… to expect those guys to perform normally. It’s just a lack of humanity in my mind, the pressure they were under,” said Dobson
The result cements the Stormers as the team to beat heading into the knockout stages, their performance a blend of brute force and surgical precision. For Glasgow, the defeat serves as a reminder that even league leaders can be swept aside when the Cape side finds its rhythm.
A farewell script rarely follows the plan. At DHL Stadium, a day meant to honour Christopher “Chippie” Solomons and celebrate Scarra Ntubeni’s final bow twisted into a bruising lesson as Connacht stunned the Stormers 33-24…
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