Ulster undone by five-try Stormers in Cape Town

Ulster's search for an opening win in this season's United Rugby Championship [URC] goes on as they fall to a 33-7 defeat by the Stormers in Cape Town. Ulster are now without a win in their opening five United Rugby Championship fixtures Tries: Schickerling, De Villiers, Roos, R Nel, Ahmed Cons: Ahmed 4 Ulster's search for an opening win in this season's United Rugby Championship [URC] goes on as they fell to a 33-7 defeat by the Stormers in Cape Town. Richie Murphy's side have now played five domestic fixtures which have produced three defeats and two draws. Following last week's defeat by the Bulls in Pretoria, Ulster went into this second game of the South Africa tour without their Ireland contingent, who reported back before November's Nations Championship fixtures.

It left them with some gaps to plug, but they would perform admirably for much of this contest as David McCann powered over for the opening score. However, quickfire tries before the break gave the hosts the lead and a third from Evan Roos minutes into the second period left them in a hole they never really looked like getting out of. It is a fourth win from five URC fixtures for the Stormers, but far from a perfect display with plenty of unforced errors, yet they produced more than