The team that started in disarray now has a shot at becoming the first URC champions
John Dobson turns to poetry and a Greek myth when he tries to put into words the journey his Stormers team has been on to reach this historic first final of the United Rugby Championship against the Bulls in Cape Town on Saturday.
“He’s known as the absurd hero. He was without hope, and his joy became defying that absence of hope. As a team we were 88-1 odds at the start of this competition, and we told the players about the absurd hero that was Sisyphus, and they took it on and revelled in proving everybody wrong week in and week out,” says Dobson.
“There were meetings every week between the management and players. It became like a kind of game to try to keep the big players. We knew if we could just keep Steven Kitshoff and Frans Malherbe, then we could secure Salmaan Moerat and Damian Willemse and others. “Then we went on tour and realised, hang on, there is something we can do here. I think some of the SA teams went on that first UK tour and came back with huge doubts, but we organically just grew as a team and came back a much tighter group.”
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