The final score was as shocking as it seems and definitely a head-turner.
Leinster Rugby 0. DHL Stormers 35.
Yikes. Big yikes.
Leinster Rugby is the defending United Rugby Championship, well, champions. They beat the Vodacom Bulls in the URC Grand Final back in June and have lived in the top five of the FloRugby club rankings.
But the Stormers, like the honey badger, don’t care.
There are plenty of legit excuses. And there are plenty of, “sure, but…” responses. Leinster was missing all its British and Irish Lions players… sure, but that team’s B-team is still better than most A-teams. They were playing in South Africa… sure, but the Stormers’ best players aren’t even with the club.
It looks bad for Leinster… sure, but there’s always Round 2!
And Round 2 has the club from Dublin facing the Bulls in South Africa in a rematch of that Grand Final that was played in Dublin. Will Leinster really play that bad a second week in a row? It also should be noted that the Bulls were in one of the best matches of Round 1, if you like points.
The Bulls beat the Ospreys 53-40 at Loftus Versfeld. They scored nine tries.
Nine. Tries.
The Vodacom Bulls scored 9 tries against the Ospreys in Round 1 of the United Rugby Championship. pic.twitter.com/OGTtNu1EcS
— Joe Harrington (@jbhthesequel) September 29, 2025
The only team that scored more, it seems, that day were the Springboks.
Leinster and the Bulls should be considered the best in the URC and no matter who is and isn’t playing, this is a match between two of the most important rugby clubs in the world.
2025 Vodacom Bulls vs Leinster Rugby
So, if you have to watch just one club match this week — if you love rugby you should definitely watch more than one match as Bath Rugby takes on the Sale Sharks and Bayonne plays Toulouse — you can’t go wrong with the Vodacom Bulls vs. Leinster Rugby.
Here’s the full slate streaming this weekend, including the final two rounds of the Rugby Championship.
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