THEY SAY that to assess a player’s value, you must watch his team play without him. In that regard, Deon Fourie’s importance to the Stormers could not have been better emphasised than when comparing successive displays in the Champions Cup.
Fourie was outstanding in the home last-16 win over Harlequins, scoring twice and securing four turnovers to take his tournament tally to 12, the most by any player at that stage of the campaign. However, the openside suffered an orbital bone fracture that kept him out of the ensuing