{"id":43442,"date":"2025-11-29T13:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=43442"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:35:22","slug":"dobbo-stormers-a-different-team-to-the-bewildered-outfit-munster-met-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/29\/dobbo-stormers-a-different-team-to-the-bewildered-outfit-munster-met-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobbo: Stormers a different team to the &#8216;bewildered&#8217; outfit Munster met in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2>The Stormers boss said they had learned how to win away since their &#8220;fiasco&#8221; against Munster in Limerick four years ago.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stormers boss John Dobson said his side has learned how to evolve their game and win matches away \u2013 a far cry from the team that lost poorly to Munster in their inaugural United Rugby Championship clash.<\/p>\n<p>The sides clash at Thomond Park, Limerick, for the third time since 2021, with the Irish team having the Stormers\u2019 number on both previous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The Stormers have won just one of their three home matches against Munster, including a 19-14 defeat in the 2023 URC final in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>This season, the Stormers find themselves top of the URC table after five straight wins, including three on their best-ever overseas tour.<\/p>\n<p>There, they whitewashed Scarlets 34-0 in Llanelli for a bonus-point win, beat Zebre 31-13 in Parma for another bonus point, and then beat Benetton 31-16 in Treviso.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-stormers-evolved-since-2021-fiasco\">Stormers evolved since 2021 \u2018fiasco\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Munster also have five wins and lie second on the URC table. <\/p>\n<p>Their 4-1 record against the Capetonians is not to be downplayed, Dobson said. But he compared his team to the one that lost 34-18 four years back, and said the difference was telling. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never enjoyed coaching a Stormers team as much as this one,\u201d the director of rugby said after naming his team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a tight group and there is belief\u2026 We feel we are more evolved, we are more attuned to what we need to do to win on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not Thomond Park where we came bewildered in the first year of URC. Stormers had never been to Ireland. Salmaan [Moerat] got a yellow card for jumping across in the lineout; we had just never seen the stuff. There was a citing, it was a fiasco. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are long way from that. They will see a very different Stormers team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, he recognised that Munster had brought their Ireland internationals into the mix straight after their Autumn Series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it is one of the cathedrals of European rugby where we have a poor record. We know what we are up against, but there is no doubt that we have the ability in this group and the focus and desperation to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Dobbo #Stormers #team #bewildered #outfit #Munster #met<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stormers boss said they had learned how to win away since their &#8220;fiasco&#8221; against Munster in Limerick four years&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43444,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43442\/revisions\/43444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}