Limp Lions to limp from Newlands
12 Mar 2009
Thank goodness there is always the prospect of playing the Lions to improve one’s mood. And the bones agree.
Having recovered from Week 3′s dismal 2/7 the bones were back in business with 5/6 with the champion Crusaders the only surprise in losing to the Highlanders.
Just how hard is it going to be for the Crusaders without Robbie Deans, Richie McCaw, Dan Carter, Scott Hamilton and a few others. Well it isn’t looking particularly good and if they don’t overcome the Force at home then it is goodbye to a successful challenge. Some would call it early days in the competition but a fourth successive defeat for the Saders will turn this season into one of rebuilding.
Of all the match-ups that has been the toughest one to call, although I think the closest game will be in Canberra when the Tahs travel north from Sydney.
Last weekend’s matches, with the exception of the Sharks and Blues, were diabolical in quality of rugby and I can’t see much changing this weekend, as the players generally lack the quality of those who in previous years made Super rugby the best provincial rugby competition in the world.
The Stormers, desperate and boring in Pretoria, will at least get a home win to ease the pain of the tradtional early season torture because the limp Lions are in town. The sooner the Lions get put out of their misery and replaced by Cheeky’s Eastern Cape Kings of Convenience the better. Another defeat will keep them rooted at the bottom of the table, a position they have owned for much of their Super rugby existence.
The Stormers will win but not because they have improved in any shape or form. This one will be down to who they are playing and not because of how they will play.
Bones
Week one: 5/7
Week two: 7/7
Week three: 2/7
Week four: 5/6
Total: 19/27
Week five
BLUES vs CHEETAHS, ALBANY, FRIDAY 08:35
Blues 10-plus
BRUMBIES vs WARATAHS, CANBERRA, FRIDAY 10:40
Tahs 1-10
CRUSADERS vs FORCE, CHRISTCHURCH, SATURDAY 06:30
Saders 1-10
HIGHLANDERS vs CHIEFS, INVERCARGILL, SATURDAY 08:35
Chiefs 10-plus
REDS vs SHARKS, BRISBANE, SATURDAY 11:05
Sharks 10-plus
STORMERS vs LIONS, CAPE TOWN, SATURDAY 17:00
Stormers 10-plus
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12 Mar 2009, 20:12 pm
Centers and half backs confrontation could be quite interesting, Stormers will just have too much savvy round about the loose ball, Goodes and Fourie with Willemse, Mentz and Ludick will all be quite a handful
Grant, JdV, Bobo, Naqalavuki and Koster should be up to the challenge. Can’t say much about De Waal and Percy on the day though, proof will be in the pudding.
12 Mar 2009, 20:13 pm
#97 grant10: Fk AP for once needs to not let me down. Seriously if his poep string pops tomorrow I am going to fly over and pull it right out his arse.
12 Mar 2009, 20:14 pm
#101 yliad: Ag those wings don’t scare me. A retreaded 8′th man and a prop masquerading as a wing.
12 Mar 2009, 20:17 pm
#97 grant10:
Rassies doing a Jake, defense wins games c’ck n bull **** deluxe chicken sh’t style retreat up the backside strategy.
He’ll catch a wake up by half time. lets hope there’ll be enough time to still turn the sinking ship around by then.
12 Mar 2009, 20:17 pm
I sympathise with the aggrieved Lions supporters on this site – Keo really does not fancy your team…
His attention on your team at least provides the Bulls supporters with a reprieve.
Not all of us Bulls supporters are like Markies Keo…
12 Mar 2009, 20:18 pm
#95 SodaJoe: okey dokey, don’t know goodes but hey, i rarely watch the lions…
12 Mar 2009, 20:18 pm
#103 SodaJoe:
Koster caught Spies from behind and he’s big and fast, he’ll leave Willemse for dead, unfortunately Mentz will leave the Fiji for dead too.
12 Mar 2009, 20:19 pm
#104 yliad: You might get within 4 points but not closer.
#105 MapleBull: Ag Keos’ bone is limp.
12 Mar 2009, 20:19 pm
#83 grant10:
louw?
12 Mar 2009, 20:21 pm
#107 yliad: Skops you could leave the Fiji for dead.
#106 Transformation: I’d never heard of him, but Lion Till I Die said he was big and quick, the opposite to Doppies’ Big & Thick. So who knows.
But if we lose this one, Loffie can rebuild fkn Griquas Ladies XV.
12 Mar 2009, 20:22 pm
Swing Low Sweet Chariot, coming for to take me home.
12 Mar 2009, 20:25 pm
Will be a tough derby….
Stormers kicking game and line-out steals on the Lions throw makes the Stormers shade this one, as far as I’m concerned…
Wielie Waalie will kick the Lions back into their corners… then at Lions line-outs close to their line, Stormers will contest it and win a few….. creating opportunities….
12 Mar 2009, 20:26 pm
Pity that both these coaches need this one so bad their entire reputation hangs on this one game, first one to blink is going down, and if I weren’t a Stormers fan I’d say Loffie deserves more than Rassie for this one to go right, Rassie likes to gamble, Loffie tries to do the right thing most times.
Still Rassie might just get lucky 5th time around, Loffie on the udder hand might need to dig himself out of a mighty big hole after Saturday, cause he’s going on the road after that.
12 Mar 2009, 20:27 pm
#110 SodaJoe:
Hey Joe,
At least I know for sure that I am going to catch up one point on you at Superbru during the last match of this round.
12 Mar 2009, 20:28 pm
#112 grootblousmile:
On this issue I agree fully with you.
12 Mar 2009, 20:32 pm
Willem is not as one dimensional as people think he is. During 2007 the Cheetahs scored 70 tries in the curry cup with the Bulls and Sharks joint second on 54 each. Willem was the flyhalf for the Cheetahs – it is all about knowing when and from what positions to be expansive.
12 Mar 2009, 20:33 pm
OK, it is time for Desperate Housewifes.
12 Mar 2009, 20:33 pm
Lions will want to keep possession more… and only kick out when absolutely forced, from inside their 22…. because of their line-out weakness…
Lions should run Wielie Waalie’s uppies back, almost without fail…. farkkk unless Yo-yo catches the uppie…. he’ll kick a few directly into touch !
This year the Lions have “Finishers”…. so beware….
12 Mar 2009, 20:35 pm
#117 Robzim: Farrkkkk, do you watch that **** ??
Ma se make-up…. gelukkig was ek noggie sooo desperaat nie !
12 Mar 2009, 20:39 pm
Lions are a good side this year, just weak at fly half and a little undercooked at lock, but they can give good as they get, just a pity they don’t believe it themselves just yet otherwise like Stormers they both would have pumped Bulls and Sharks back up their overblown spouts.
Anyway some say its good for SA rugby that the two high flying super duper teams got off to a flying start, now they just got to show they can keep it that way.
12 Mar 2009, 20:41 pm
desperate housewives …. now there is a new description for the stormes if ever I have heard one..
12 Mar 2009, 20:43 pm
SodaJoe, well done, you keeping the Lions on the front foot here. Dissapointed in GBS for going against the Lions.
12 Mar 2009, 20:45 pm
#122 Ed_the_Lion: Ed, Edd & Eddie…. check post #118….
I’m being objective…. njannies!!
12 Mar 2009, 20:47 pm
#123 grootblousmile: Hey broerrrrrr.
I have read all the posts. You are being very objective but what will you do on superbrrruuu
12 Mar 2009, 20:47 pm
stormers will win this one i think, by 10 points.
i am ambivalent about this result.
12 Mar 2009, 20:47 pm
#123 grootblousmile: Prrrractising the RRRR for St. Patrrricks day..
12 Mar 2009, 20:48 pm
#112 grootblousmile: That does worry me. I admit it. Fk.
12 Mar 2009, 20:48 pm
#121 gunther:
wheres my mate sondeboks coolerbox?
12 Mar 2009, 20:49 pm
#124 Ed_the_Lion: On Bru I will pick against Yo-yo Pretorius…. and I’ll favour home advantage….
But it’s a difficult pick to make….
12 Mar 2009, 20:49 pm
#125 rangerman: by 10 points??
ambivalent: uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
12 Mar 2009, 20:49 pm
good lions side, pity ernst still out and larry is a bit too rotund for the ELVs.
12 Mar 2009, 20:50 pm
#114 Robzim: You Stompies are all the same beating your chests and blah blah blah before the game.
You will be bleating your chests afterwards.
Ag I am getting nervous for this one.
We need to win, or start again with a new coach. New team.
But GBS has the tactics down, Stompies can win this way. Fk.
12 Mar 2009, 20:50 pm
#129 grootblousmile: thanks for the honesty. you blue bulls have a very honest and well behaved streak in you.
12 Mar 2009, 20:51 pm
#121 gunther: LOL
12 Mar 2009, 20:53 pm
#130 Ed_the_Lion: ja, ambivalence caused by me not wanting to see my skoonfamily suffer another weekend (i secretly enjoy the lions style too).
also, i really dont think the lions are a bad side, actually i agree with yliad (please, please, say nothing), they just dont believe in themselves.
but home advantage will count imo.
12 Mar 2009, 20:53 pm
#125 rangerman: Ranger put your SB prediction in you cagey animal.
12 Mar 2009, 20:53 pm
#133 Ed_the_Lion: Me well behaved….. hehehehe…. haahahaha…
Bwahhahaha….
Amper stik ek aan my billies en drank….
12 Mar 2009, 20:55 pm
#135 rangerman: I won’t say anything. Skoppie is 100% correct, they need to believe in themselves. I posted that on lionspride.co.za. If they go to newlands believing in themselves, then there is going to be a moer off a pakslae on the horizon.
12 Mar 2009, 20:55 pm
Stormers loosies will handle Lions, except big Willem A. will be a monster to stop if he gets up a head of steam.
Lions backline outside of flyhalf is quite lethal now, including slow coach Willemse and steam train Mentz.
Barry B. Goode could be the surprise package of the showdown.
12 Mar 2009, 20:56 pm
#135 rangerman: Ranger – I think it’s closer than 10 either way.
Front Row – Lions
Locks – Stompies
Loosies – even
Centers – even
wings – Lions
Flyhalf – even
Scrummie – Lions
Fullback – Even.
De-Waal & Line-outs worry me.
If I was Stompies – if AP comes off we will see a very good Lions backline.
12 Mar 2009, 20:56 pm
#137 grootblousmile:
12 Mar 2009, 20:57 pm
#128 rangerman:
I am sitting on it … keeping it warm and drowning my sorrows over the cricket… very hot here in cape town coolerbox essential equipment…..
12 Mar 2009, 20:57 pm
#137 grootblousmile: You well behaved !!!! Hi Titanium….
12 Mar 2009, 20:58 pm
#136 SodaJoe: lmao! i just put my pick in soda. but nou ja, i am still in to minds about the lions vs stormers game.
ambivalent.
#138 Ed_the_Lion: ja, i think i will watch this game.
12 Mar 2009, 20:58 pm
#138 Ed_the_Lion: Ed – I don’t see a confidence issue in the Lions. I really don’t.
I see a big confidence issue in Stompies so far this season. And the pressure will be huge after we hold on and sneak ahead in first 30 minutes.
12 Mar 2009, 20:59 pm
#145 SodaJoe: hold on and sneak ahead. We gonna have to keep it together. Not always easy defending 30 points after 30 minutes.
12 Mar 2009, 21:01 pm
maak hulle sag loffie.
12 Mar 2009, 21:01 pm
#140 SodaJoe: nah, Rose is the real deal when he is on form.
AP who? (jolling!).
#142 gunther: LMAO!
i have a twin door 74l fridge/freezer in the back of my landy. the beer is always cold!
12 Mar 2009, 21:01 pm
Robzim watches Desperate Housewifes !!!
Amazing!!
12 Mar 2009, 21:02 pm
#146 Ed_the_Lion: see you’re in for +16. I like it.
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