As the Sharks turn their attention to hosting the Exeter Chiefs in the Challenge Cup on Saturday, perhaps the best thing they can take out of their miraculous defeat of the Stormers is that they did it without forward domination.
Before the United Rugby Championship took a break for the November international season, the Sharks beat Munster and Glasgow thanks to serious forward momentum engineered by a Springbok tight five that took no prisoners.
But that did not happen against the Stormers. Bongi Mbonambi was unavailable for family reasons, Eben Etzebeth had a variety of niggles, Vincent Koch was injured early, while Ox Nche started but was heavily targeted by the Stormers front row. For the first time in his career, he was anonymous.
Stormers tighthead Neethling Fouche came out of the game with his reputation significantly enhanced.
