VIDEO: Dobson gives update on latest Feinberg-Mngomezulu injury

The Stormers will end the year on the brink of the top eight and a play-off spot in the United Rugby Championship.

However, they may have paid a very dear price for their crucial 24-20 home win over the Sharks at the weekend.

It required a late try from Jean-Luc du Plessis to secure a win that saw the Stormers record back-to-back bonus-point wins and move up to ninth place on tournament standings at the halfway stage of the league stage.

Springbok star Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu left the field at the Cape Town in the 37th minute – with yet another injury – his third of the season.

Stormers Director of Rugby John Dobson admitted the 22-year-old suffered an injury and that they had taken a ‘risk’ to play him in the match.

“We took him to the edge,” Dobson said, adding that the hip-pointer injury he suffered against the Lions last week was tight – having come back from knee surgery and a concussion setback since September.

“When he [Feinberg-Mngomezulu] first went down, I thought: ‘We made a calamitous error as coaches’.

“We went six-two [a forwards heavy bench] and he went down.”

Dobson said it is an “unrelated” injury to the other setbacks this year – knee, hip flexor and concussion.

“It is his clavicle [collarbone] that went out. He said it was back in.

“We offered it to him to come off, but he said he wanted to keep trying.

“I am not sure if it was helpful for the team, but we should have pulled the trigger [taking him off] a little earlier.

“He was trying to push through to half-time.”

(WATCH as Stormers Director of Rugby gives some details on the latest setback suffered by Springbok star Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu.….)

Dobson said it is a blow for the Stormers to lose such a special player.

“Three games in a row we have lost him within minutes and it is tough on him,” the Stormers boss said.

Hooker Joseph Dweba was ruled out at a late stage with a hamstring injury.

Dobson did not put a timeline on his star players’ potential return.

However, Evan Roos, Sti Sithole and Leolin Zas are all expected to return from injury when the Stormers return to Europe – playing Sale Sharks (Champions Cup in Cape Town), Racing 92 (Paris, Champions Cup) and Leinster (in the URC, Dublin).

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