{"id":209088,"date":"2025-12-01T04:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209088\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T04:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:55:14","slug":"ireland-are-probably-paying-the-price-stormers-coach-john-dobson-says-south-african-scrum-dominance-is-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209088\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ireland are probably paying the price\u2019 \u2013 Stormers coach John Dobson says South African scrum dominance is here to stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stormers players celebrate after their victory over Munster on Saturday night at Thomond Park. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/df33544d-d9aa-45d9-a56a-56e94bea6b9e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stormers players celebrate after their victory over Munster on Saturday night at Thomond Park. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Long after the Thomond Park crowd had cleared on Saturday night, the Stormers gathered on the famous turf for a photograph to celebrate their first win at what their coach John Dobson described as a \u201cmythical\u201d rugby venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Saturday night\u2019s victory is one that the South African\u2019s savoured as they came from 21-6 down at half-time, rolling on six forwards and overpowering Munster to score 21 unanswered points with their scrum utterly in command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stormers players celebrate after their victory over Munster on Saturday night at Thomond Park. Photo: Shauna Clinton\/Sportsfile Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,12311,4934,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-209088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-munster-rugby","12":"tag-ruaidhri-oconnor","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115642534885494711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}