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, 21:23 pm
#189 carol: I got France win, and I am calling England this weekend.
It’s easy with 3 games. S14 is HARD. Especially when you bet on Cheaters and Crusaders. ********. If Crusaders lose this weekend, I am going to send Loffie to coach them.
12 Mar 2009, 21:24 pm
#173 yliad: complex skop….crazy heat wont go away…business…lust and love all convoluted and mixed with egos ….all dissolves face to face when time stands still and the heartbeat like a flyhalf getting a lobbed pass with Gert Smal bearing dowmn on you….yeah…i can see another fridge loss…
12 Mar 2009, 21:24 pm
#185 grootblousmile: We met some guys who were there with some ex professional footballers, one of them won £11,000 yesterday! Of course we don’t know how much he may have lost as well! they keep that quiet!
12 Mar 2009, 21:24 pm
#195 cab: Nope. Cheaters. Then Reds.
12 Mar 2009, 21:25 pm
#175 carol: drinking to numb some pain…where you Princess??
12 Mar 2009, 21:25 pm
#197 rangerman:
I am self taught in the art of cooler box theft… it is a humble skill but mine own….
12 Mar 2009, 21:26 pm
#198 yliad: tahs vs reds was a good match.
quade cooper is quality.
#199 carol: thats probably the biggest derby in our rugby carol. ill tempered affair i thought.
12 Mar 2009, 21:26 pm
#187 SodaJoe: You reckon you will catch me do you, you should see the hints I have from Grant and GBS !! We will see….
You may have to look at my backside for a bit longer!!
12 Mar 2009, 21:26 pm
#202 grant10: Open the fridge you still own, and haven’t given away, and have a BIG LONG DRINK of something strong.
Now calm down.
Stompies are going to lose. I know.
Don’t worry the “Blonde” still digs you.
Did you get rid of the Beemer?
12 Mar 2009, 21:26 pm
#181 SodaJoe:
good james bond that oke, that one he did with that french actress was damn good i thought. old robzim, desperate housewives and cliff richard, am actually not sure if he’s joking or not.
12 Mar 2009, 21:27 pm
#205 grant10: Hi gorgeous, the Guiness effect is wearing off me now….was your day very traumatic? I wondered how it went!
12 Mar 2009, 21:27 pm
#206 gunther: More valuable just to dief the stuff out of the cooler. Less conspicuous as it were.
12 Mar 2009, 21:28 pm
#208 carol: Well in truth I would tell you that’s a better view.
12 Mar 2009, 21:30 pm
#201 SodaJoe: no, you didnt back the crusaders did you?
mccaw is out and they are hondkuk already!
#206 gunther:
12 Mar 2009, 21:30 pm
#210 cab: I’ve really grown increasingly concerned with multi-polar Zimbo. This behaviour would make any man blush, even a Cotswolds farmer.
Whatever happened to those report buttons you loved so much. Maybe I will just send Roy an email and get him banned.
Ok OK OK OKAY! I’m just teasing.
12 Mar 2009, 21:30 pm
#212 SodaJoe:
yes but where is the fun in that? as my yorkshire ancestors used to say you may as well be hung for a sheep as or a lamb..
12 Mar 2009, 21:31 pm
#201 SodaJoe: Of course I must do my 6 Nations selections too. At least that does not take as long!
#213 SodaJoe: I doubt that!
12 Mar 2009, 21:31 pm
#190 rangerman:
safe as houses, from what? from falling off your humpty dumpty walls of expectation,
I’d actually rather know I’m still a little fallible with a little growing yet to do than think I’ve arrived all of a sudden. Else where’s the challenge if it all goes so provisionally to plan even when it is all flunky fluxed flukety fluke that gets one there.
12 Mar 2009, 21:31 pm
#205 grant10: Talk to us…..looks like today did not go well!
12 Mar 2009, 21:32 pm
#208 carol:
no harm there you belter…
12 Mar 2009, 21:32 pm
#214 rangerman: I did. It was an interesting one to call. But Force don’t impress me, they blow very hot then freezing cold, and ‘Saders at home.
I felt that I needed a call to help me catch Ms Cheltenham.
Agree, could have gone other way.
12 Mar 2009, 21:33 pm
#209 SodaJoe: done a deal…tues the 2006 523 i gone foe a 320 i new one…saves me r3000.00 a month…strange but true…devils arithmetic skop….Sienna looking the business….18 months….time stood still….what can i say….lovethe moments…reminds me i am alive…went with a mate after the funeral to a quiet pub….ex phones mate an hour later to ask where we are…cute but so scared of the complications…damn fridges cost mate!
12 Mar 2009, 21:33 pm
#215 SodaJoe:
ja those report buttons were a load of horseshit, but nouja lets not go there.
12 Mar 2009, 21:33 pm
#216 gunther: As a lifelong Leeds United fan, I might have to change my ways and steal a whole fridge.
Or,
I could just ask Grant for one. He gives them away.
12 Mar 2009, 21:34 pm
#217 carol: Not even close. I promise.
12 Mar 2009, 21:34 pm
#211 carol: awesome day…so weird Princess…wounds wide open…
12 Mar 2009, 21:35 pm
#218 yliad: Classic. I have no idea what you were saying. This has always portended great things for my rugby team. Your unintelligible muse is talismanic and for this I am grateful.
Lions by 4.
12 Mar 2009, 21:36 pm
BOYS QUICK, FOR HEAVENS SAKE MAKE GRANT SEE SENSE…
Grant I am shouting, do not do anything STUPID!!!
12 Mar 2009, 21:36 pm
#222 grant10: Think with the big head bud.
12 Mar 2009, 21:37 pm
#224 SodaJoe:
I dread to think about what you might have to endure to secure a fridge from grant..nowadays you can buy a fne one for very little money its all about risk vs reward..
12 Mar 2009, 21:37 pm
#223 cab: Yup you and Skops, hot buttons are easy.
Now about the Grens Oorlog …
12 Mar 2009, 21:37 pm
#218 yliad: i admit, it was a little nasty of me to lead you on like that
i must admit, the blatant reference to “the lsat outpost” might be a little to much, seems not hehe….
#221 SodaJoe: ja, catch up superbru is much like catch up rugby…it leads to all sorts of risks.
12 Mar 2009, 21:37 pm
#195 cab:
seems we share quite a bit in common in spite of all the differences at back of the ranch, Stormers and Lions my two teams too being brought up in Springs and Joey’s and living in C.T. since ’78
12 Mar 2009, 21:38 pm
#230 gunther: You may be right, he might make me take the Turk as well.
I will just upgrade to stealing coolers rather than mere borrels.
12 Mar 2009, 21:39 pm
I’m so lethargic tonight…….. so lazy, I would rather pee in the bush outside my office than walk 3 m further to the toilet…
Think I must make it an early’ish night… tomorrow’s a difficult day…. farkkk… I have to watch 2 Super 14 games in the morning…..
Hehehe
12 Mar 2009, 21:39 pm
#224 SodaJoe: you a speedo wearing male yank….no chance mate …you dont qualify for a fridge!!
12 Mar 2009, 21:40 pm
#233 yliad: TRAITOR!! Two faced *******.
James Phillips is turning in his grave.
The Corporal Punishment reunion tour has been abandoned.
Well, we don’t need you then.
Lions by 4.
12 Mar 2009, 21:41 pm
#226 grant10: Fly Half… ask her for the fridge back… if she gives it…. then go for it !!
Hehehehe
12 Mar 2009, 21:41 pm
#234 SodaJoe:
yes the turk guaranteed to leave a bad taste in your mouth…
12 Mar 2009, 21:41 pm
#236 grant10: Well then you’re stuck with the Turk.
12 Mar 2009, 21:41 pm
#220 gunther: I owe you a fiver for that, thanks!!
12 Mar 2009, 21:42 pm
#228 carol: shook her hand…the earth quaked…Richter scales reached new heights….breathlessness took on whole new proportions….everything went into slow motion….very, very, weird!
12 Mar 2009, 21:42 pm
#235 grootblousmile: Did you have a late night?
12 Mar 2009, 21:42 pm
#238 grootblousmile: Naughty. Go to sleep before you get Miss Clifton Boardshorts into a lot of trouble.
12 Mar 2009, 21:43 pm
#230 gunther: LOL
12 Mar 2009, 21:43 pm
#242 grant10: That’s what happens when all the blood flows downstairs.
12 Mar 2009, 21:43 pm
#242 grant10:
sounds like you still got unfinished business brewing there, hope your blondes got a big forgiving heart buried in her bosom.
12 Mar 2009, 21:44 pm
#243 carol: Mmmmm… worked till 1:30am….
12 Mar 2009, 21:44 pm
#231 SodaJoe:
ja, lets not go there either, actually the oke that almost certainly knows the most about the ‘grens’ is the most chilled out oke on here, 4man or caracca cordooda nowadays.
#233 yliad:
springs, yoh, very close, me boksburg and benoni, folks from cape town and eastern cape. cape town is by far the prettiest of our cities, but a bit too many trendies, prefer the joburg vibe.
12 Mar 2009, 21:44 pm
#241 carol:
baby for you it is on the house…must be all that riding you do..
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