Stormers versus Connacht URC 2026

That was a second movement.

Try against the run of play.

Yep. Refs walks Connacht up the field from their own 22 and they eventually score.

He penalises BJD for jumping across, but he couldn't even reach the ball despite jumping across...and this is after he had called the Stormers for not throwing in straight :/

I hate Warrick Gelant...I truly truly truly do!

Warrick!

Great one handed take from Sacha!!!

pity he lost it after contact but shit that was a nice grab!

Dobson is quoted in one of the articles on the right bemoaning abuse of players…..I think he means you Plum.

Mchunu my candidate for MOM

Warrick deserves abuse...and a beating!

How does the ref not want to call that for collapsing the maul!?!?!?

He actually gave a penalty for something else

That's our Sacha.

The same Sacha that scored those tris against Ireland and France.

What a player….the best watch in rugby

How you don't play a game where you just feed this guy the ball as often as possible is beyond me

And Connacht hit right back!

LOL

conversion missed

24-19 Stompies

Plum

dont be a doos.

does Gelant pick himself or does the coach?

don’t hate the player.

Gelant penalised for going tin the side of the ruck :/

Gelant again…hesitation exactly like a few weeks ago. Dobson is a fool.

And Gelant makes a bloody cockup as he slowly gallops to defend a kick ahead...and Connacht score

I guess Dobbo should make him captain next week

Gelant's mistakes have cost the Stormers a try scoring chance...+80m and a try.

Imagine if every player cost you that much!?

Damn Willemse….Stormers trying to lose the game

Old Roos has had a decent shift today

I wonder if Bronson Mills' knee is okay? Hope he's gonna start against Glasgow

That’s all she wrote.

And that's the game.

Naughton with the intercept and the conversion puts it beyond the Stompies reach

24-33 Connacht

And Roos loses it in contact.

The Lions game will be far better

Dobbo is picking the MOTM today...

It's Gelant haha

Bonus point win in Cape Town... that will do nicely.

Very smart play by Connacht…see you for Venter Plum.

Glad I missed the second half... congratulations Stav..

But was raining over night so the turf might be a bit "los"...like Hollie

LOL. Keep my stukkie's name out your fuckin mouth.

Watched most of this game (unfortunately) but had guests so couldn't join commentary. Same with the Lions although that was a much better watch . . . if a little one-sided at the end.

Not sure what it is with Connacht. They generally look pretty average against other British teams but always lift their game against South African sides, whether that is home or away.

I'll be around for the Sharks game later . . . not sure if anyone else is brave enough to watch?

Eish, I might check it. But only for Andre ;)

"LOL. Keep my stukkie's name out your fuckin mouth."

...but I didn't even make any G I Jane jokes?

I have a suggestion for the Stormers - fore th at s hho/tbrai.n t heym have ass a coach . He selected Fou,rie at 6 - and t he fucker gavce awqay trwo penal;tiesd - both ending up in tgriers fpor Connacht - h e a;so gpot carded and the Stormers had to play wso/th 14 players.

Then he also/ cau,se passing at i.mpo/ssible .oinstnan ces with Connacht gotten hold of the ball and scored tries,

The SDt/orfmers today was supershit causxedd by defective coaching .

Not sure what it is with Connacht. They generally look pretty average against other British teams but always lift their game against South African sides, whether that is home or away.

Average against British teams?

We beat Glasgow, Scarlets and Ospreys, while we lost to Cardiff and Dragons. We have yet to play Edinburgh.

Our issue is against the other Irish teams we have just won 1 out of 5 so far. One of the problems Connacht is they play on average what is the strongest of the 4 shields in the URC. Effectively rivals like Cardiff, Edinburgh, Benetton and the like get a 5 point head start in that they get to play the weakest teams the Dragons and Zebre twice. But in fairness Dragons are a decent side this year, while Zebre were last season.

Anyway our recent form and style of rugby has been really good, we have won our last 5 URC games after winning just 3 of our first 10.

Delighted with 5 points today, gives us a real shot at top 8 which considered the start to the season we had would be a major achievement.

"fore th at s hho/tbrai.n t heym"

holy hell, Mike!