Stormers coach Dobson would have preferred Durban

STORMERS coach John Dobson seems to have painted himself into an interesting corner because of the form of a Durban prop that is likely to make way for another Durban prop.

- MIKE GREENAWAY

The Durban dilemma for Dobson is that he has signed Springbok looshead Ntuthuko Mchunu from the Sharks, the Maritzburg College old boy, only to have given a spectacular weekend URC debut to Vernon Matongo, a Durbanite himself

Matongo was excellent for the Stormers in their defeat of the Dragons at the weekend. The pizzazz was all about Damian Willemse’s 100th cap, but there were sideshows from openside flank Paul de Villiers Durban schoolboy Matongo.

The former Northwood schoolboy forced several scrum penalties to indicate that he is not going to give in to Mchunu when swaps Durban for Cape Town at the end of this season. Dobson believes Matongo and De Villiers are “going to be huge”.