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Kaiser Chiefs, Solana Pirates, Momoleta Sundowns, they all book their places in the Colang Knockout quarterfinals.

And according to reports, Bongi Mbonambi has signed with the Stormers.

Ryan said, I feel like if we could compete under the high ball and win our own lineups, we would have grinded out a win.

The Stormers game last season showed we can compensate for our relatively weaker scrum.

just so much else going wrong definitely miss Beetham but Steph is looking good and will be staking a claim on the 12 shirt which yeah the club put out a little highlight reel of him playing at inside centre some of his defensive work in particular for a man who sort of visually doesn't look particularly big I don't think Steph Emmanuel but hits very hard indeed drove a couple of them back Rob on Blue Sky said line out dysfunction in two games already this season is a concern especially as we've previously relied on a reasonable chunk of good line out possession for launching our first up attack and Tackling such defence was also worrying, asking whether they're systemic or individual errors, and then to get back in it and then stop playing was annoying.

Lloyd, in simple terms, we were really poor under the high ball and uncharacteristically poor at tackling.

I mean, I just got those WhatsApps flying in from all over the world and a couple of circles you made, and I tried to figure it out.

And you were measuring the teams up, the Bulls and the Stormers, how well they are really.

Oh, you know, where are they really? Let's hear what you've got to say.

I was quite interested.

You know, it's like, actually, in some ways, the coaches like that better.

You get the win on the log, you still get the points, but you get the advantage of saying to the guys, yeah, that didn't really feel very good, right? When the Bulls were watching Ulster climb their way back into the match, it didn't feel right.

And people, you know, you leave thinking... what is that you know same with the Stormers like okay it's a giant score on our side but what is that score by the Scarletts you know how bad would that be if it was Glasgow running at us so I think it's great to drill down and see those things But now you're burying the lead.

So you owned Loftus.

They haven't won a league game through four matches.

They played the Stormers away this weekend, so that could be another defeat potentially.

I suppose between draws and bonus points, they're only one point outside the top eight, so it could be far worse in terms of the points table.

Their season as a whole, really, they played some good stuff.

But yeah, Yeah, they need to start winning games.

I don't think that's anything too outlandish to say.

They could be this far into the season, and if they don't beat the Stormers in Cape Town, which is one of the more difficult games that you're going to have in the ERC, you're going to be into December before you've won a league game in a best-case scenario.

It's almost the flip side of Munster.

Yeah, I think I expected them...

If I go back to the first league game, I thought they'd get a result against Stormers.

That was a bit of a reality check that... and maybe a bit of a learning curve for the team.

It was a strong kind of team, and you expected them to maybe get enough performance to get a result there.

Stormers were excellent.

They caused Glasgow some problems over in Glasgow, but again, came up short.

So I think it's a very exciting side, and Last week was a big high for them to play the way they did and they were always going to be under pressure and I think Saracens kind of kept poking back at them and they're very physical side Saracens but Connacht stood up and I think their team attacking play was outstanding and to score seven tries and i'd uh get a performance like that will will only benefit them so yeah stuart langer just picks a strong team he wants to try and continue building on that confidence and momentum and get a get a big result again tonight against zebra

When you're in the red zone, hold onto the ball, pass the ball correctly to your teammates.

And again, Springbok men do it, the Bulls do it, the Sharks do it, the Stormers do it.

So, but it's just about really remaining focused on those basic little things.

And now I think, Some of it was also, like John mentioned, the energy was a little bit different.

The island quality is shining through, even though they are themselves missing one or two players.

Yeah, I would encourage everybody to go check it out this Saturday at Athlone Stadium.

But now we go from Athlone Stadium to... 17 kilometers down the road to Cape Town Stadium, Jean, where the Stormers and the Scarlets decided to play Premier League, Gallagher Premier League rugby and just forget about defending.

Yeah, very interesting match.

In rugby news, the Scarletts will be without three key players for Saturday's URC clash against the Vodacom Bulls at Loftus.

Winger Max Page has been ruled out after suffering a head injury during last weekend's defeat to the Stormers in Cape Town.

Meanwhile, flank Tane Plumtree and centre Joe Hawkins have left the squad to join the Wales national camp ahead of the upcoming Nations Championship.

The Scarlets head into the match under pressure, having lost three of their opening four URC fixtures and currently sit 14th in the standings.

I'm going to say Connacht.

Stormers-Ulster.

Stormers.

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