With the winner guaranteed a place in the quarterfinal of the tournament and the loser’s campaign coming to an end, Fleck brought in centre Damian de Allende, wing Seabelo Senatla and flyhalf Joshua Stander with scrumhalf Jano Vermaak replacing the injured Herschel Jantjies.
De Allende returns from a week off, while speedster Senatla has shaken off a head injury suffered two weeks ago and Stander replaces Jean-Luc du Plessis at No.10 after playing off the bench in the win against the Sunwolves last weekend.
Fleck is hoping the four men can give his side the boost they need to make the playoffs.
He says: “We had to work incredibly hard to get to where we are.
“Halfway through [the tournament] it was pretty tough going for us.
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“We had to fight our way back and with the number of injuries in the second half. It’s been difficult to get continuity.
“The boys have done really well every week.
“And it’s been no different this week.
“We’re not focusing on playoffs yet. If we win, we go through and wherever our travels lead us, we look forward to that on Sunday.
“There’s excitement around the camp about the result this weekend.”
Stormers:
15 Dillyn Leyds, 14 Seabelo Senatla, 13 JJ Engelbrecht, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Edwill van der Merwe, 10 Josh Stander, 9 Jano Vermaak, 8 Jaco Coetzee, 7 Johan du Toit, 6 Ernst van Rhyn, 5 Chris van Zyl, 4 Cobus Wiese, 3 Frans Malherbe, 2 Bongi Mbonambi, 1 Steven Kitshoff (captain).
Replacements:
16 Scarra Ntubeni, 17 Corne Fourie, 18 Wilco Louw, 19 David Meihuizen, 20 Chris Massyn, 21 Justin Phillips, 22 Jean-Luc du Plessis, 23 Dan Kriel.