Golden Lions coach Johan Ackerman has announced his side to take on the Toyota Free State Cheetahs in a Currie Cup fixture in Bloemfontein on Friday evening.
The team sees four changes to the starting line up that squeaked past Griquas last weekend, including a completely re-vamped front row that includes former Blue Bull Bees Roux at Tight Head Prop.
Herewith the GLRU media announcement:
TOYOTA FREE STATE CHEETAHS VS MTN GOLDEN LIONS:
MTN Golden Lions head coach Johan Ackermann has announced his side to take on the Toyota Free State Cheetahs, in round six of the ABSA Currie Cup, on Friday evening.
Ackermann has made four changes to his starting line-up, following last weekend’s 32-38 victory over the GWK Griquas in Kimberley.
In the forwards, CJ van der Linde will start at loosehead as Jacques van Rooyen drops to the bench. Willie Wepener will also start this match at hooker with Robbie Coetzee providing cover off the wood. Bees Roux will start at tighthead, while Warwick Tecklenberg is promoted from the bench.
There have been no changes to the MTN Golden Lions backline for this fixture.
The match will kick off at 19:10 on Friday.
MTN Golden Lions: 1 CJ van der Linde, 2 Willie Wepener, 3 Bees Roux, 4 Ruan Venter, 5 Franco van der Merwe, 6 Warwick Tecklenberg, 7 Derek Minnie (Captain), 8 Willie Britz, 9 Tian Meyer, 10 Elton Jantjies, 11 Antony Volmink, 12 Dylan Des Fountain, 13 Robert De Bruyn, 14 Andries Coetzee, 15 Marnitz Boshoff
Replacements: 16 Robbie Coetzee, 17 Jacques van Rooyen, 18 Hugo Kloppers, 19 Jaco Kriel, 20 Ross Cronje, 21 Deon Helberg, 22 Ruhan Nel.
I can’t for the life of me understand the logic of leaving Jaco Kriel on the bench and starting with Tecklenberg.
I hope the Lions brains trust know what they’re doing.
Bees Roux’s (long awaited in Lions’ circles) selection is bound to get some debate going, but if reports are to be believed he has crossed all of his T’s and dotted the I’s in this regard, so let’s hope it’s not the end of his comeback.
Jeeeez, Jaco Kriel is a monster at openside… why on the bench!!
WTF!
@ Scrumdown:
We have a real grizzled old front row there. Mystery why Kriel is on the bench. Maybe JA wants to speed up the game in the last 15-20 minutes.
3 @ Lion4ever:
Problem is if we need to speed it up then there’s a problem
Should rather start at top speed and build a lead.
I hope it doesn’t back fire.
I am with everyone. Why on earth does Ackerman leave Kriel on the bench? I would rather start him than only use him to speed it up at the end.
Lions should still win this one.
Think Lions and Province have the best back 3 in their teams.
5 @ Puma:
Did you see the message I left you on how you were done in with your Modem Router and Range Extender, on the Ratings thread?
@ Puma:
I agree that Kriel should start. But with the Lions seeming to wake up in the last 30 minutes of the game, maybe JA wants use Kriel to spark that attack.
Apparantly Kriel being benched is rotational.
8 @ Lion4ever:
Jeeeeez, it’s not as if Kriel has been played to death this season… he was “rested” a few weeks ago too… and the Lions have played about half the games the other sides have played this year.
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