“Discipline cost us a bit, and we ended up losing the game, but it gave us confidence that we can compete with foreign teams, particularly French teams,” Dweba added.
“Yes, we lost, but it was due to our own errors, and maybe we can correct them this weekend and continue to improve.
“Before we played against Clermont, I reminded them that the French are really proud of their scrums, that they are huge boys, big ball carriers, and that they are just passionate. But if you look at the first half against Clermont, we actually held them off; we were in the game until the 60th minute or so.
“However, from what I can tell, and Deon Fourie was also present, we informed the players of everything to expect.
“We’re thrilled to be back in the sun and playing in front of our home fans. We greatly missed them throughout our two-week absence.”
TEAMS Stormers: 15 Damian Willemse, 14 Suleiman Hartzenberg, 13 Ruhan Nel, 12 Dan du Plessis, 11 Angelo Davids, 10 Kade Wolhuter, 9 Stefan Ungerer, 8 Hacjivah Dayimani, 7 Willie Engelbrecht, 6 Deon Fourie, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Connor Evans, 3 Neethling Fouche, 2 Joseph Dweba, 1 Steven Kitshoff (captain)
Replacements: 16 JJ Kotze, 17 Ali Vermaak, 18 Brok Harris, 19 Ben-Jason Dixon, 20 Evan Roos, 21 Herschel Jantjies, 22 Jean-Luc du Plessis, 23 Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu
15 Alex Newsome, 14 Marvin O’Connor, 13 Cheik Tiberghien, 12 George Moala, 11 Bautista Delguy make up the Clermont lineup. 10
Replacements: 16 Benjamin Boudou, 17 Daniel Bibi Biziwu, 18 Davit Kubriashvili, 19 Miles Amatosero, 20 Lucas Dessaigne, 21 Sébastien Bézy, 22 Gabin Michet, 23 Francois Mey
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Christophe Ridley is the referee for this match (England)
Luke Pearce (England) and Jamie Leahy served as assistant referees (England)
The TMO is Tom Foley (England)
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