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Stormers head coach John Dobson ruled out arduous travel as a factor in their 42-17 defeat to Exeter Chiefs on Saturday. Dobson’s side exited the Champions Cup with the quarter-final defeat at Sandy Park. | Sport24news

Stormers head coach John Dobson ruled out arduous travel as a factor in their 42-17 defeat to Exeter Chiefs on Saturday.The Stormers must get back to Cape Town to prepare for a URC date with Munster next weekend.

The upshot was that they had one training session and one rest day. The travel told on game day. They may as well have played with sandbags and truck tyres tied to their legs.Resident rugby writer Rob Houwing gives you his expert views on what's going on between the poles."We flew in three or four different parties and got here late on Wednesday. The last guys arrived Wednesday evening," said Stormers coach, Dobson.

"But we want to be here in this tournament, in these quarter-finals and if it means we have to fly to Europe, then we've got to do it." "The thing that worried me a little bit in that opening 20 minutes was that we weren’t folding like we should have on defence. We looked flat," he said.

 

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