11 Responses to Super Rugby: Lions announce their touring party

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  MacroBull on 5 March 2015 at 8:56 pm

  With the huge hoo haa when Rohan Janse van Rensburg left the Bulls its surprising he didn’t make the touring squad, is he injured?
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  nortie on 5 March 2015 at 9:06 pm

  MacroBull wrote:

  With the huge hoo haa when Rohan Janse van Rensburg left the Bulls its surprising he didn’t make the touring squad, is he injured?

  He’s on the reserve bench for the Vodacom Cup team who play the Welwichias this weekend

  16. Ramone Samuels

  17. Clinton Theron

  18. JP du Preez

  19. Cyle Brink

  20. Lohan Jacobs

  21. Rohan Janse van Rensburg

  22. Vainon Willis
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  MacroBull on 5 March 2015 at 9:13 pm

  @ nortie:
  I also went to look now, Alwyn Hollenbach also playing for the Lions, he was also not a bad player… Like I said when he left the Bulls because he is too far down the line and people were blaming the Bulls for buying other talent… competition is tough everywhere, there are no handouts.
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  nortie on 5 March 2015 at 9:17 pm

  @ MacroBull:
  Not a bad looking Vodacom Cup side…..I see Ackerman’s son is on the flank.
  Considering how the “proper” team have been faring so far in SR, who’s to say some of them shouldn’t rather be playing Vodacom Cup?
  Or Community Cup , nudge nudge wink wink Mnisi
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  MacroBull on 5 March 2015 at 9:19 pm

  anyway, apart from having to play the Crusaders, this is actually as good as a draw for a tour any team can dream of. Two wins should be their target!
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  nortie on 5 March 2015 at 9:21 pm

  MacroBull wrote:

  anyway, apart from having to play the Crusaders, this is actually as good as a draw for a tour any team can dream of. Two wins should be their target!

  So was starting with two home games in the first 3 rounds.
  Currently the Crusaders look the worst of their opposition on tour
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  MacroBull on 5 March 2015 at 9:25 pm

  @ nortie:
  Vodacom cup has a weird format this year, the North section plays 9 rounds, (2 rounds before the south section plays a game).

  So the teams from the north section will have a 2 byes while the teams from the south has none.

  Odd
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  MacroBull on 5 March 2015 at 9:26 pm

  @ nortie:
  Worse than the Blues?… who are also traveling back from South Africa.
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  MacroBull on 5 March 2015 at 9:29 pm

  Lol and to contradict myself I am predicted the Blues will absolutely maul the Lions byu 30+
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  nortie on 5 March 2015 at 9:36 pm

  MacroBull wrote:

  @ nortie:
  Worse than the Blues?… who are also traveling back from South Africa.

  Yes, Blues are not clinical at finishing…idiot Braid with an open try knock on, being called for a forward pass by the TMO, but the ball was about a meter more backward than Kriel’s pass, which was, also according to a TMO just fine.
  The Blues were shafted in Bloem by the ref and TMO, but if they didn’t bungle so many tries they could have nullified the officials.
  They should still beat the Lions?
  The Lions think they are this wonderful attacking team, shunning penalties to go for tries, but the reality is they have only scored 2 tries in 3 games
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  MacroBull on 5 March 2015 at 9:43 pm

  @ nortie:
  thats exactly what I have been saying all along, the Lions only scored 2 or 4 more tries than the Bulls last year, all thanks to the thumping they gave the Cheetahs in the final game. When it works it works, but the Truth is that the Lions would not be anywhere near as successful without Boshoff, when you look back at the Stormers game last year they put the Stormers on the back foot with penalties and drop goals, not by playing like Elton Spencer.

  The Blues has to click at some time or another, no time like clicking when you come back home from a tour.