John Dobson rugby player
John Dobson rugby player

John Dobson

1st Jan 1970 1.70m/kg Head Coach

Du Plessis hits 50 for DHL Stormers

3 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Jean-Luc du Plessis will play his 50th game for the DHL Stormers in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship North-South clash against the Vodacom Bulls at DHL Stadium on Saturday. Du Plessis starts at inside...

Fourie leads DHL Stormers at DHL Stadium

3 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Deon Fourie will captain the DHL Stormers in their Investec Champions Cup encounter with Stade Rochelais at DHL Stadium on Saturday. The experienced loose forward will lead the DL Stormers out to face...

DHL Stormers face new frontier in Leicester

3 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

The DHL Stormers will face the Leicester Tigers for the first time in their Investec Champions Cup opener at Mattioli Woods Welford Road on Sunday. Experienced prop Brok Harris will lead the team in Leicester,...

Match Preview: DHL Stormers v Zebre Parma

3 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

The DHL Stormers are reinforced by the return of World Cup winning Springboks Manie Libbok, Damian Willemse and Deon Fourie as they look to bounce back from four straight defeats on tour in Europe. Key...

World Cup-winning Boks add more sparkle & fizz to the URC

3 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

The one consistent among South Africa’s trio of BKT United Rugby Championship coaches in Jake White, John Plumtree and John Dobson, was the size of their smile in welcoming back their World Cup title-winning...

RWC-winners lead SA Rugby Awards nominations for 2023

3 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Five members of the Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok squad in France – Pieter-Steph du Toit, Eben Etzebeth, Siya Kolisi, Frans Malherbe and Damian Willemse – were nominated for the coveted...

Dejected Dobson Says URC Is Tougher Than Ever

4 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

John Dobson is one of the cheeriest, most upbeat figures in the game, so when he cuts a dejected figure you know times are challenging. It was all smiles for much of the DHL Stormers’ first two...

United Rugby Championship Round 6 Wrap-Up

4 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

A magic fixture and a bumper crowd Leo Cullen says there was something for everyone in a “magic fixture” as his Leinster team beat champions Munster 21-16 at a packed Aviva Stadium. A crowd...

SA sides excite on local soil in Vodacom URC

4 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

A successful conversion by big Willem Alberts summed up the Vodacom United Rugby Championship weekend from a local perspective as the three South African sides playing at home ran amok against their visitors...

Match Preview: Cardiff Rugby v DHL Stormers

4 months ago by Ultimate Rugby

Cardiff’s South African fly-half Tinus de Beer is well aware of the threat posed by the DHL Stormers and sums it up in one word - chaos. “I played with a few of them, like Warrick Gelant,...