High-flying, offloading Stormers have winning recipe brewing: 'Our best performance of the campaign'

The high-flying Stormers will end this weekend's United Rugby Championship (URC) action in the second position on the overall log, comfortably the highest-placed South African team.

Friday night's 32-7 win over Glasgow Warriors at Cape Town Stadium was a commanding one and it showed the Stormers' finest attacking qualities of skill, pace, precision offloading and game awareness that, more often than not, leads to the correct decision-making.

Flyhalf Manie Libbok is the conductor of the orchestra, but there were stellar performances on Friday from Damian Willemse and Warrick Gelant, who played a half each at fullback after Rikus Pretorius' injury. 

Willemse was equally impactful after he moved to No 12, but with Gelant, the two Springboks were at the heart of seemingly everything memorable the Stormers did on the attack. 

The backline receives the credit, because what the Stormers are delivering currently is very easy on the eye, but the work rate of the forwards is equally commendable as it is allowing that space for the playmakers to shine. 

There were still issues - the Stormers missed lineout jumpers and too many tackles in the first half - but they were in full flight by the time the match ended as Glasgow was blown off the park. 

"I think that second half was probably our best performance of this whole campaign, to my mind," said coach John Dobson after the match.

Willemse was named man-of-the-match, but Dobson also praised Gelant for the way he broke the game open in that second period.  

"Warrick is amazing," said Dobson.

"I remember people saying about Graeme Pollock that he just had so much time, and Warrick just looks like he has time."

On the offloading game, Dobson said it fitted in well with the Stormers identity,