Limp Lions to limp from Newlands

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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  • 301.filthy Luca: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:10 pm

    #293 grant10: Grant you sound like you’re in a bit of a state. Have a kip and things will seem a lot clearer in the morning.

  • 302.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:11 pm

    I’m supercool grant buddy just got to be up extra early to be at rondebosch boys high.

  • 303.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:11 pm

    #288 grootblousmile: If you are so practical I have some odd jobs you could attend to !! :-) Fancy a trip to England?

  • 304.yliad: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:11 pm

    #252 rangerman:

    for somebody that classifies himself as a clever **** goody two shoes mommies boy you sure do duck out of here in a hurry, especially after you try your luck, then you duck, shows you don’t have too much gumption where it really counts, should try facing up to your goody two shoes self now and again. n try stand your ground.

  • 305.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:12 pm

    #303 carol: Hehehe…

  • 306.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:12 pm

    Yeah grant, how many pints have you been downing?

  • 307.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:14 pm

    Meneer gbs hoe gaan dit ou man. I bet your smile has become even bigger since you last saw the super140 log.

  • 308.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:17 pm

    anyone following the recent varsity cup action lately? UCT and the maties are just in a class of their own, just to bad that the winning feeling not rubbing off on the stormers.

  • 309.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:17 pm

    Ok…. time to go do the SuperBru picks…. then go hurt a mattress !

    Cheers !

    Grant, moenie mielie gooi nie !

    Cheers Karlien, sweetie…

    Cheers friends and UBU the dumbest !

  • 310.Blouste: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:18 pm

    Hi again everybody

    Seems the whiskey keeps me out of circulation…

    Go Lions and Brumbies…

  • 311.Wezwp: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:19 pm

    anyway i’m off people. Have a nice peaceful sleep and dream about the stormers winning the super14

  • 312.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:19 pm

    #298 Wezwp: man u will moer them sat wez…my boys man u!!

  • 313.Blouste: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:20 pm

    #309 grootblousmile: Ouderdom vang ou boeta :lol:
    Lekker slaap

  • 314.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:20 pm

    #290 yliad: Actually I only went to school in the E. Cape. One I started my support of the Lions I was one for life. Like Leeds. Hard work, but testament to my upstanding character, and penchant for being in love with difficult people.

  • 315.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:20 pm

    #309 grootblousmile: I’ve just been looking at mine and I am stuck on Brumbies v Warratahs….may toss a coin!
    Night my lovely XX

  • 316.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:21 pm

    #311 Wezwp: See you Wes…Lets hope the Stormers pull it off at the weekend!

  • 317.yliad: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:22 pm

    #291 grant10:

    OK maybe coming from me it could be a double edged sword but if you want to worship Goddess Eve then go for it, get burned, get soul tortured to hell and back, it actually is worth it in the end, you get what you pay for through it all, in cash, heartache and kind.

    They tell me that love isn’t lust, well thats what they tell me anyway. I reckon maybe there could be a bit of both, a little love intertwined with a little lust to keep the whole shenanigan spinning round.

    Ultimately I guess we have to get the hang of what we really want out of it all, love or burning meteors exploding into cosmic dust.

  • 318.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:22 pm

    #292 Wezwp: Just saw them a few months ago in Minneapolis.

    Terrible disappointment.

    Liam absolutely can’t sing, and is truculently boring.

    They sounded like a poor Oasis covers band trying to audition using Karaoke as their metier.

    Noel, will always be one of my all time favorites, and “Don’t Look Back In Anger” is incomparable.

    I would pass if I was you.

  • 319.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:23 pm

    #306 Wezwp: pints…red wine and a bit of white, now you listen to a 46 year old who knows chicken **** about life,business and women…avoid the ones that stop traffic….be safe muy man!

  • 320.Ed_the_Lion: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:23 pm

    #318 SodaJoe: Watch NHL tonight. On my way to Bruins game in 15 mins.

  • 321.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:24 pm

    #309 grootblousmile: cheers GBS …

  • 322.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:24 pm

    #296 filthy Luca: Lucre. They cannot do worse the balls up that it is now.

  • 323.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:25 pm

    #304 yliad: Skop. My friend. Yawn.

  • 324.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:26 pm

    #314 SodaJoe: i am a specialist in loving the strangest of women….as long as they bonde , super hot and stop traffic….and oh yes …have an affinity for Defy Fridges!

  • 325.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:29 pm

    #324 grant10: OK and again…you have a reply.

  • 326.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:30 pm

    #317 yliad: Grant this is not good advice.

    Drive looking in the rearview mirror and you will crash.

  • 327.yliad: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:31 pm

    #314 SodaJoe:

    Same as here, left Springs in std 6 & went to Parktown JHB till 72, then left for Europe after army, came back ’78 and headed straight for C.T. been here since.

    So which am I now, a vaalie or a capey, your guess as good as mine. I like them both Stormers and Lions, so no sweat between them far as I’m concerned, and I agree with cab, I also prefer the Jo’burg ‘vibe’ to C.T., except the quality of life a little better or ‘easier’ down here.

    final analysis, no place really is all that perfect, you make of it what you can and same goes for allegiances and love, its what you put in that counts more than what you trying to get out of it.

  • 328.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:31 pm

    #317 yliad: you know …as i do…that mediocrity and anything fake gets exposed…the heat makes you the greatest force you can be….i never settle skop….rather die young in the flame than freeze in the cold…way i am wired…live for the heat,,,,thats mny stiory…price to pay….?????Big price to pay if you dont embrace the heat…i know you know what i mean!

  • 329.filthy Luca: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:33 pm

    #324 grant10: Please help me here. What’s all this banging on about fridges, am I missing something subtle?

  • 330.SodaJoe: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:33 pm

    #328 grant10: Somethings going on. I am confused.

    I can understand Skoppie.

    I have no idea what Grant is talking about anymore.

    This can only mean one thing. The lions will win by MORE than 4.

    Thanks.

    I am off.

    See you through the window.

  • 331.yliad: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:34 pm

    #326 SodaJoe:

    whats so bad about it, where’s the rear view mirror facing?

  • 332.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:36 pm

    #317 yliad: This could all get very messy…

  • 333.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:37 pm

    #330 SodaJoe: Soda, you did your best….I will try to make Grant see sense!! Until tomorrow, watch me trounce you again this weekend!! lol

  • 334.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:37 pm

    #329 filthy Luca: had a few lady friends in my 46 years …lost 9 fridges,,,,,just the way it is,,,but never settled for mediocrity…always kept it real!

  • 335.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:38 pm

    #334 grant10: You never even offered me a “cool box”….
    I am quite miffed!!

  • 336.yliad: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:39 pm

    #328 grant10:

    Yip thats the best you can do, don’t settle for compromise in yourself, but then there is also a bit of compromising to be doing sometime when it concerns others, otherwise, there is always the payback, and paybacks sometimes take time to rectify, lifetimes upon lifetimes of them.

    Go with the heart Grant, thats the only advice I can honestly give, everything else might take some other kind of undoing later in the end.

  • 337.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:39 pm

    #333 carol: u got male…i mean mail!

  • 338.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:41 pm

    #335 carol: LOL….careful what you wish for….we may end up feeling heat over a coffin…weird!!!!

  • 339.filthy Luca: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:45 pm

    #334 grant10: Aaaah it all makes sense now.

  • 340.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:46 pm

    #338 grant10: It would be very wierd as we have no mutual friends really!!
    Look about rugby you have Brubies by 3 and GBS says Tahs by 5 – 14….. I have a decision to make!! I do not want Soda to overtake me this week!

  • 341.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:47 pm

    #336 yliad: heart is the only way i know skop….when it comes right down to it….its about the blood and heart and stirring of ther soul…all the brains and safety first and best thing to do, etc fades into insignifigance…the best memories are those against all odds….about the heat….on that death bed i will never regret a few fridges on the debit side of the balance sheet. My mate we buried today lived….no regrets…47 going on 19….proud of my boy….****….a few tears now!!

  • 342.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:47 pm

    #339 filthy Luca: His mate lost 7 fridges!!
    Grant won the fridge loosing contest in style!

  • 343.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:48 pm

    #337 grant10: I know, it arrived ages ago, I even replied!

  • 344.carol: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:50 pm

    Robzim and Ed come down and talk some sense to Grant….I have to get changed, still wearing my racing outfit!!

  • 345.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:52 pm

    #334 grant10:

    Jeez, 9, that is terrible. I count my blessings, really.

    What is your call on the Stormers match? Have you come to terms with Willem at 10? :)

  • 346.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:52 pm

    heart is the only way i know skop….when it comes right down to it…..its about the blood and heart and stirring of the soul….all the brains and safety first and best things to do, etc, fades into insignifigance…the best memories are those against all odds….about the heat….on the death bed i will never regret a few fridges on the debit side of the balance sheet.My mate we buried today lived….no regrets….47 he was going on 19…proud of my mate…hell…a few tears now

  • 347.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:53 pm

    #343 carol:

    Racing outfit?? What have I missed here?

  • 348.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:54 pm

    #340 carol:tough one….go with a draw! LOL

  • 349.filthy Luca: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:55 pm

    #341 carol: Fridges – now that’s a unique measurement of romantic success / failure – heheh. I’m warming to this concept. Sorry….

  • 350.grant10: Reply to this comment
    12 Mar 2009, 22:57 pm

    #345 Robzim: Lions by 10….the bubble to burst….as for wikkelspies at 10….i will never come to terms with that…rassie must go back to bloem….skop for coach!!

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