{"id":310216,"date":"2025-12-11T05:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310216\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:53:13","slug":"ronan-ogara-has-his-work-cut-out-for-him-as-boks-return-for-stormers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310216\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronan O’Gara has his work cut out for him as Boks return for Stormers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Stormers<\/a> have continued to welcome back their contingent of South Africa<\/a> internationals for their Investec Champions Cup<\/a> clash with Ronan O\u2019Gara\u2019s La Rochelle on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The United Rugby Championship<\/a> leaders travelled to Bayonne<\/a> last week with only two Springboks in their squad who were part of Rassie Erasmus\u2019 squad for their Quilter Nations Series campaign \u2013 Ben-Jason Dixon<\/a> and Ntuthuko Mchunu.<\/p>\n

They left the Stade Jean-Dauger victorious, but face a more formidable Top 14<\/a> foe this weekend in Cape Town in the form of two-time champions La Rochelle, who picked up a bonus-point victory over Leicester<\/a> Tigers in round one.<\/p>\n

For that clash, John Dobson has called in his heavy artillery, welcoming back the Bok half-back duo of Cobus Reinach<\/a> and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu. Form No.8 Evan Roos<\/a> has also returned to the starting XV, having been on the bench last week.<\/p>\n

There is still more Bok firepower to come, with Damian Willemse<\/a> not included in the squad, but the Stormers seem intent on maintaining their unbeaten start to the season.<\/p>\n

Fixture<\/p>\n

Investec Champions Cup<\/p>\n

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Stormers <\/p>\n

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Stade Rochelais <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was great to win away from home, but we have to back that up now and we know that it will take a big effort against a highly physical Stade Rochelais<\/a> team,\u201d Dobson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always get such fantastic support in Gqeberha, so we are all looking forward to what should be a big match with Test match intensity at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n

DHL Stormers: 15 Warrick Gelant<\/a>, 14 Dylan Maart<\/a>, 13 Ruhan Nel<\/a>, 12 Jonathan Roche<\/a>, 11 Leolin Zas<\/a>, 10 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu<\/a>, 9 Cobus Reinach<\/a>, 8 Evan Roos<\/a>, 7 Ben-Jason Dixon<\/a>, 6 Paul de Villiers, 5 JD Schickerling<\/a>, 4 Salmaan Moerat<\/a>, 3 Neethling Fouch\u00e9, 2 Andr\u00e9-Hugo Venter, 1 Ntuthuko Mchunu
Replacements: 16 JJ Kotz\u00e9, 17 Oli Kebble, 18 Sazi Sandi<\/a>, 19 Connor Evans<\/a>, 20 Ruan Ackermann<\/a>, 21 Marcel Theunissen<\/a>, 22 Imad Khan<\/a>, 23 Wandisile Simelane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stormers have continued to welcome back their contingent of South Africa internationals for their Investec Champions Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-310216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}