Coach John Dobson is eager to see how the “hurting” DHL Stormers respond to the challenge of hosting London Irish in their Champions Cup home debut on Saturday.
Losing hurts but it is a lot easier to take a lesson when you are hurting. Often there are few lessons taken on board when somehow you win in a match you all know you could have lost because the performance was not up to standard.
Some would and could say I am being too harsh on us and say it was no rugby crime to lose 24-14 away to Clermont, a team that at home, before our match, had only lost three from 35 European competition matches. I have also heard some tell me to relax, it is the norm to lose away from home in the group stages of European competitions, but for me to even entertain such thoughts would be a cop-out and I’d be doing a disservice to everything I speak about to you all every week.
Unity is a collective and it is this unity in everything we do against London Irish that will be paramount to success on Saturday. Equally, it is playing with intelligence and with the respect to the rest of the team that every individual act has a knock-on effect to the team collective.
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