He wants his players to be at their best. With that concern, Dobson isn’t being an overbearing teacher holding his boy wonder to extreme and unrealistic standards. Gaza (Willemse) is not known for kicking and neither is Dillyn (Leyds) and the wings aren’t really kickers, that is potentially a red flag or a concern for us.”
“There are challenges around the back three and kicking, definitely. It’s not new this season, it is something I’m certainly going to address,” Dobson said on Saturday.
“There were a couple of times this season where, across the back three, Damian Willemse included, we haven’t realised we’ve taken the ball back or we returned a kick when their chase line is still 30 metres off and we’re kicking into touch and these guys are getting massive territorial gains and lineouts. That red-clock try, which ultimately stole the win for them against the Lions, is also testament to that character. Nobody can argue that the Stormers have shown massive character and commitment until now - how else do you keep two out of your four opponents scoreless without it? That’s commitment. He would have been happier with their latest performance, one in which they didn’t just get the result, but also showed improvement in areas that Dobson felt had to go better after their first three games.
Over the last few weeks, he has spoken a lot about what the Stormers can still improve on and how he reckoned they weren’t operating at even half their capacity after the Lions game. Head coach John Dobson, though, has made it unmistakably clear that he wants more. Sure, they had to grind it out, but they did it. Then there was their 17-7 win against the Jaguares at the weekend. They have now won four out of four matches, having denied the Hurricanes and Bulls the opportunity to score a single point in their first two games, while they also got the job done against the Lions last week, earning their first win at Ellis Park since 2015.
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