SCARLET LETTER

THE Stormers are back on top of the United Rugby Championship standings after dishing out nog ‘n eier, this time to Welsh club Scarlets in Friday 34-0 win in Llanelli.

After blanking Scarlets, coach John Dobson’s Stormers can spog with the enviable record of doing that to two teams in this season’s URC, after klapping Leinster 35-0 in the season’s opening game in Cape Town.

But, unlike the Leinster blank, the Stormers looked a bit scrappy on attack at Parc Y Scarlets as they failed to capitalise on an ill-disciplined Scarlets span penalised for conceding penalties.

The home team were straffed 15 times in the first half, but the Stormers could only convert those into 17 first-half points as the Kapenaars also found themselves on the wrong side of referee Frederico Vedovelli’s whistle.

Vedovelli made a farce of a call to yellow card Ben-Jason Dixon for a supposed croc-roll, which on TV looked nothing like one.

However, the sin-binning would not stop the Stormers physically shutting out the home side on defence and attack as No.8 and eventual man of the match Evan Roos opened the scoring in the 11th minute.

A penalty goal by Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu in his first game of the season for the Stormers, put the visitors 10-0 up.

And just before halftime, flank Paul de Villiers crashed over from a powerful lineout maul to increase the Stormers’ dominance.

Ruben van Heerden then got the Stormers’ third try just before hour, before Feinberg-Mngomezulu and Imad Khan also got five-pointers.