Emirates Lions head coach Johan Ackermann has named his 23-man side to face the Vodacom Bulls in Saturday’s local Vodacom Super Rugby derby match.
In the forwards, Ackermann has made just 2 changes with Jacques van Rooyen starting at loosehead prop and Andries Ferreira earning a starting berth at lock.
Ackermann has also opted for consistency in the Emirates Lions backline, making just 1 change to his starting outfit. Anthony Volmink will earns his 1st Vodacom Super Rugby start of the year having fully recovered from his long-term injury.
Kick-Off is at 17:05 SA Time at Emirates Airline Park.
Tickets are still available via Lionsrugby.computicket.com from as little as R 40.00.
Emirates Lions: 15 Andries Coetzee, 14 Ruan Combrinck, 13 Lionel Mapoe, 12 Harold Vorster, 11 Anthony Volmink, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Ross Cronje, 8 Warren Whiteley (Captain), 7 Warwick Tecklenburg, 6 Derick Minnie, 5 Franco Mostert, 4 Andries Ferreira, 3 Ruan Dreyer, 2 Robbie Coetzee, 1 Jacques van Rooyen
Replacements: 16 Armand van der Merwe, 17 Corne Fourie, 18 Julian Redelinghuys, 19 Robert Kruger, 20 Jaco Kriel, 21 Faf de Klerk, 22 Marnitz Boshoff, 23 Howard Mnisi.
Emirates Lions Media Release
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Don’t know how they work out their rankings (it may say somewhere on their site), but this does make for some interesting reading. Top Ten performances from Round 7 of Super Rugby :
http://www.rugby.net/s/vo9ePJvWPOx#Fx:c=5380666493501440&l=4834616120705024
From the same site : The Sharks overcame the visiting Force, led by fullback SP Marais. Heineke Meyer is now in the strange position where four of the five South African Super Rugby fullbacks (led by Marais) are on our Top Fullbacks list — with the incumbent Springbok the only one missing. Interesting to note the guy who seems to get a lot of flak (SP Marais) is number 3 in their list behind Israel Folau and Ben Smith. What do you guys who watch Super rugby week in and week out make of their various rankings?
The list : http://www.rugby.net/s/kRkAXZ8RZXA#Tx:c=5380666493501440&s=6103068449964032&g=6579220025180160&m=4647546269990912&q=5448074889527296
Also interesting to me is that 3 of SA number 8s are in the top 10 of number 8s in Super rugby according to that site’s ranking – 1. Warren Whiteley, 6 Duanne Vermeulen, 7 Pierre Spies.
It seems to work on accumulated points so guess that the more game time players get the higher they could generally potentially be on the ranking.
Quite comprehensive in their compiling of their lists if you read through all their explanations.
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