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were unable to hold onto most of their own ball, while they also gave away a lot of penalties which helped the visitors stay in touch with them.
“We respect Connacht for their physicality and their fight was amazing. But I thought we were really ill-disciplined on attack and defence. So that was a bit silly and we kept them in the game,” explained“Credit to them for fighting but I really thought we should have buried it just after halftime, but we ended up making it a bit tense.
“That was our worst performance in the lineouts. I think we only won about 50% of our ball today and you can’t play a URC semi-final like that.”Stormers captain Steven Kitshoff was not as critical of the lineout effort, admitting that the late loss of Bok lock Marvin Orie, which saw regular number four lock Ruben van Heerden having to shift to five to make the calls, played a part in the struggles.
“I think with Marvin pulling out last second and the wind swirling around in the stadium it was a bit tough, but I thought Ruben managed it well and we won a few key lineouts that we needed. So it’s something we will work on ahead of the final,” said Kitshoff.The breakdown was another area where the Stormers struggled, missing Bok star Deon Fourie after he was also a late withdrawal for the game, but Dobson said that both he and Orie would be fit and available for the final.
“Obviously we took a bit of a gamble. We could have forced Deon and Marvin to play, and thank goodness it has paid off. You could see we didn’t slow down their ball as well as we normally do and in the lineouts Marvin was missed,” said Dobson.
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