Apart from injuries to our centers, the Stormers had to deal with a number of different flyhalves directing play as well (Grant, Van Aswegen, Cronje, Coleman, Duvenhage, Rose all did duty), so we never got going.

The most worrying thing is that of the 4 SA players you feel might make a S15 XV, 2 will probably be on the bench (Bekker and Du Plessis) come the RWC,  behind Matfield and Smit respectively, and the other 2 are both probably (confirmed in Pretorius' case) off abroad next year.