Cape Town - Four ordinary-season matches left, eight tries needed to ensure they don’t emulate or even worsen a dubious figure they recorded in their last season of Super Rugby finals series qualification in 2012.
That is the requirement for the Stormers, riding high again this year - currently second overall, albeit helped by the artificial pecking-order demands of the conference system - if they are to try to somehow convince sceptics that they have, indeed, evolved their game to some degree since that strange campaign three years back.
It was bizarre then in the sense that the Capetonians eventually topped the overall standings to tee up a lucrative home semi-final (where their trail unfortunately ended), despite registering the fewest tries of all teams in the competition: 28 at an average of well less than two per game.