Slick Lions maul Province
22 Oct 2011
SIMON BORCHARDT watched the Golden Lions beat Western Province 29-20 at Ellis Park to secure a home final against the Sharks next Saturday.
WP came into this game as favourites. They had five World Cup Springboks in their starting XV compared to the Lions’ one. This was their third consecutive appearance in the Currie Cup play-offs, while the Lions had not reached this stage since 2008.
Yet it was the young Lions side that played like experienced veterans, scoring two unanswered tries to reach their first final since 2007. WP looked disinterested for the first hour and by the time they woke up, the game was long gone.
Elton Jantjies was successful with all seven of his kicks at goal, which forced Province to play catch-up throughout. The Lions were the more threatening side on attack and were solid on defence, especially in the second half when they had just 40% of the ball (compared to 60% in the first half). Derick Minnie produced a big performance at the breakdown, while Franco van der Merwe impressed with ball in hand.
The Lions deservedly led 19-12 at the break, after Jantjies and Demetri Catrakilis each kicked four penalties, and Jaco Taute scored a try on the 35-minute mark after an inside pass from Deon van Rensburg.
WP weren’t helped by injuries to Siya Kolisi, whose head collided with Jantjies’ elbow during an attempted tackle, and Bryan Habana, who was replaced on the half-hour mark by Juan de Jongh (he went to centre with Jean de Villiers moving to the wing). However, the Province scrum did improve when Frans Malherbe came on at tighthead prop with Brok Harris moving to loosehead.
The Lions extended their lead to 14 early in the second half when a poor pass from Nicholas Groom was intercepted by Michael Killian, and the left wing went over in the corner. That prompted the surprise return of Habana, who until then had been sitting on the bench as if his match was over.
Catrakilis and Jantjies exchanged penalties to make it 29-15 going into the final quarter, as WP began to dominate possession and territory. They came close to scoring when Schalk Burger offloaded in the tackle to Harris, who was stopped inches short of the tryline. The Lions tackled courageously during this period but a double-skip pass from Burger eventually put De Jongh over with 10 minutes remaining.
Catrakilis, though, missed the crucial conversion that would have brought his side back to within striking range, and the Lions finished the match inside the WP half.
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22 Oct 2011, 22:39 pm
Don’t suppose he watches movies either.
22 Oct 2011, 22:40 pm
Sorry leather = turnips
no to leather. This is one wierrdarse fkn philosophy – what I want to know is WTF do the poor lions do – I don’t think their stomachs can handle parsnips – strange universal laws these.
22 Oct 2011, 22:40 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-347: Shall I remind you of your rugby-or-nothing principles next time you fckoff on some expletive laden rant or pseudo philosophical thesis in 24 parts?
22 Oct 2011, 22:42 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-346: you ever seen a cow taken to the abattoir to be slaughtered for its hide for the leather industry?
Nope .. it ain’t the case they are taken to the abattoir for the meat you buy at Pick and pay and Woolworths .. the stuff you are marinating right now .. not for my belt or wallet or shoes
22 Oct 2011, 22:43 pm
So now we all cannibals.
22 Oct 2011, 22:45 pm
If god didn’t want us to swim in the water, he wouldn’t have made it wet.
If he didn’t want us to look at women, he wouldn’t have given them boobies.
And if he didn’t want us to eat lamb chops, they wouldn’t have tasted so good.
22 Oct 2011, 22:46 pm
Oops gotta go – must put the sports on hold.
22 Oct 2011, 22:46 pm
@Suidkapenaar(Suidkapenaar)-350: Correct boggerall brains in charge of SA rugby just rondfok around the merry go round till we fall over our own mindlessness and try find out where we aiming at or where we going… No captain of real credibility is groomed and now we have to start again from base one having just wasted an entire four years chasing after Mr. Has Been’s ego rampant self centered ambitions…
What a bloody waste of 4 whole years for nothing..!!
22 Oct 2011, 22:48 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-354: Oh, so your shoes and lederhosen are just the bonus spoils of war. That beast died for my sins, so you just went and took his hide.
No mate, it’s all or nothing. You can’t be half outraged by animal products.
22 Oct 2011, 22:49 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-355: not quite but not that far apart.. why don’t you eat your puppy dog or kitty cat.. the Chinese do? Same consciousness as the cow that tastes oh soooo good..
22 Oct 2011, 22:56 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-359:
in holistic civilization the animal was not murdered or slaughtered for its hide unless eaten first then the hide was used.. why the outrage at trappers trapping for fur .. or whalers whaling for blubber while you killing how many cows and innocent lambs and calves for the delectable tastes upon your screwed up palate? Leather is a bye product of the meat industry not the other way around..
There are plenty synthetic materials for these uses like shoes and belts etc but an animal can die from natural causes too… and humans can also donate organs like kidneys and livers and eyes and after they are dead to those who need them after they are gone…
You just looking for a justification to condone your blood lust.. nothing more.
22 Oct 2011, 22:59 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-361: That’s just what you tell yourself when you slip your Grasshoppers on. That it was dead already when the shoe people found it.
Talk about justification. Well, whatever makes you sleep a little easier.
22 Oct 2011, 23:02 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-362: nope I never killed nobody for my grasshoppers so you talking kak out your hat … you wanna condone your blood lust by looking for an angle to divert the attention from the crime then carry on bullshitting yourself you are pretty good at that…
why don’t you focus on the ACTUAL issue and not the byproduct of your weak justification..
22 Oct 2011, 23:03 pm
Vegetarians are supposed to be even tempered.
Why skop always so befuck.
22 Oct 2011, 23:07 pm
@cab(cab)-352: you a lion or a human.. Lions eat meat.. humans not… check their teeth and digestive tracts as to what their natural diet is…. unless their ancestors got screwed around the brain some time back
22 Oct 2011, 23:09 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-364: because I’m a befuckte vegetarian … hardly a good example.. you should consider Ghandi or Mother Theresa or George Bernard Shaw or JC superstar if you looking for non befuckte examples…
22 Oct 2011, 23:10 pm
Today we all lions
22 Oct 2011, 23:13 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-363: What are you talking about, old man? I didn’t kill my cow either before eating it. Same with you and your shoes. We get others to do the dirty for us, but we both share the blame. This byproduct argument is just lame and baseless. There are two industries based on killing cows – meat and leather. I support both, you support only one. But your shoes still belonged to a living breathing cow once. I know this doesn’t sit well with you.
22 Oct 2011, 23:15 pm
Anyway, that’s me. Just a quick turn of the steaks in the marinade before I hit the sack.
Sweet dreams.
22 Oct 2011, 23:19 pm
Vegetarians are cuckoo.
22 Oct 2011, 23:21 pm
Well, this result was another nail in the “No Cups” coffin for Coetzee.
Bok coach material? I say not.
22 Oct 2011, 23:24 pm
I am starting to think the All Blacks are going to choke. Marc Lievremont will probably show the ’99 semi final to his team as many times as possible. I have watched it a couple of times this week.
22 Oct 2011, 23:31 pm
@>^..^< katman(katman)-368: you talking absolute kak again.. no animal is slaughtered for its hide unless its in North Saskatchewan at the turn of the last century when trappers and hunters went out hunting for fur and hides…
There are civilizations on this planet that have been vegetarian for centuries and eons for countless generations and never have they resorted to killing animals for their hides…
You are the idiot who is totally confused and trying to justify your penchant for killing for the sake of the taste bud conditioning of your palate while you are championing the morality of being humane on the other hand and while you are being a murderer in the very next breath…
So get it straight.. NO animal is killed or slaughtered for its hide or its leather.. which is an absolute by product of the meat industry.. if it were NOT for humans eating meat to the degree they do.. leather would NOT be the industry it is…and humans would find a different means to manufacture belts and shoes if the hides were insufficient from animals which have died from natural causes..
Animals are not killed for hides except by humans who seek to create industries for profit such as crocodile or ostrich farms etc for that specific purpose .. animals are killed for food and that is the PRIME motive and reason for the meat industry and leather is a by product.. not a primary one.
22 Oct 2011, 23:33 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-370: go tell the millions or billions of cuckoo vegetarians whose ancient civilizations are WAY further advanced and civilized than yours you dumb fck ignoramus heathen barbarian fckd up dunce..
22 Oct 2011, 23:34 pm
cloud cuckoo land.
22 Oct 2011, 23:35 pm
freedom of choice and all that, but I can’t stand the sorts who try and preach their ways as the only way.
22 Oct 2011, 23:40 pm
@Horings(Horings)-372:
could very well happen.. as the hours and minutes tick by toward kickoff I reckon the sweat on the AB palms start getting more and more noticeable and the tickling in the throat region a little more prevalent…
they may just choke again.. Frogs got way less to lose than NZ has
22 Oct 2011, 23:41 pm
The ticker tape parade isn’t in any threat. It’s only a question of by how much…
Or at least, so the Kiwis tell us…
22 Oct 2011, 23:44 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-376: nobody preaching some dumb fck barbarians came on here a little while ago seeking an argument about shoes and leather belts while I was talking rugby but dumbfck cuckoo imbeciles like you will never know the difference between freedom of choice and conditioned reaction … bottom line you don’t have an iota of any freedom of any choice .. your dumb fck actions have been predetermined for you from way back in your dumb fck preconditioned fckd up mindless preconditioning… poor pathetic ignoramus barbarian imbecile dunce that you are..
22 Oct 2011, 23:48 pm
Man is a preditor, always has been, carnivor – omnivore…..4ward faceing eyes.
Herbavore – eyes on the side of head.
Have never seen a cow with incisors
Vegetarian will eat dairy products
vegan…. No animal products at all…..that includes toothpaste, soap, shampoo, makeup….plastic or material shoes etc. Most that i know order there stuf from Lush.
leather is a byproduct from the abbatoirs where we get our meat
abbatoirs hideous places, a nessesary evil as humans cant all hunt 4 there food in this day and age.
vegan and vegatarian is a lifestyle choice. Oh and saying 2 Dawn about eating a pet cat or dog was stupid, preditors dont eat preditors mostly.. Its an aberration
I will say no more, it could go on infinitly. This took 4ever on phone, those beans, peas, apples are all living b4 the die, pick it from the soil and you are eating dieing vegetation. This is life, your conscience is yr guide.
22 Oct 2011, 23:48 pm
@378. The funny thing is that France were in arguably worse shape back in ’99 and ’07 and NZ had Mehrtens and Carter. Now they have Weepu kicking for goals. I am not convinced that he can take the pressure and France have been quite disciplined. He will not get that many chances. France is also the only team in the top 4 with a good goalkicker. Surely they can defend for 80 minutes of their lives and then it is a matter of which team converts their chances.
22 Oct 2011, 23:49 pm
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-379:
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22 Oct 2011, 23:50 pm
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22 Oct 2011, 23:51 pm
something went a bit haywire there.
23 Oct 2011, 00:04 am
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-380: according to Darwin the father of modern archaeological treatise on evolution.. man is an advanced Gorilla or Orangutan .. who are both vegetarian..
Man is an omnivore.. where herbivores eat only vegetables (lowest form of living consciousness alive) and carnivores eat only flesh (highest form of living consciousness) .. man eats anything .. from slugs and eggs (which only snakes do in the animal kingdom) or goggas and crawling insects.. and crabs and frogs and dogs and cats and horses and cows and sheep and goats…and some even eat each other in societies on remote islands where perhaps the necessity to remain dominant was to kill and eat their foes
HOWEVER if you read Genesis there is a certain passage which reads as follows…:
God said, “I have given you every plant with seeds on the face of the earth and every tree that has fruit with seeds. This will be your food.” Genesis 1:29
1. every tree bearing seed
Examples: apples, avocados, grapefruit, pecans, papaya, cherries, olives
2. every plant bearing seed
Examples: tomatoes, beans, lentils, wheat, berries, squash, corn, rye
Man does NOT need to kill for his sustenance or his dietary needs.. he does so purely from a barbaric blood lust which he has bred through genetic association and conditioning through parts of his history … his NATURAL disposition and metabolism is towards being vegan or vegetarian.. and NOT a carnivore as felines and canines are…..
23 Oct 2011, 00:19 am
As a WP fan, I would like to say well done to the Lions. Jantjies is a must for the Boks, so is Strauss.
1. Beast
2. Bismark
3. Jannie
4. Flip Van der Merwe?
5. Andries Bekker
6. Brussow
7. Schalk
8. Josh Straus
9. Hougaard
10. Elton Jantjies
11. Mvovo
12. Frans Steyn
13. Sadie
14. JP Pieterson
15. Pat Lambie
16. Chilli
17. Coenie Oosthuisen
18. Elstadt
19. Whitley
20. Sarel Pretorius
21. Jaun De Jong
22. Johan Goosen
The future looks good, now just get the right coach, please!
23 Oct 2011, 00:24 am
This is something that is debated by greater minds than ours (well greater than mine anyway) one will lean this way and the other the other way. Night skop cartoon time, Johnny Bravo lol.
23 Oct 2011, 00:29 am
@Treehugger(Treehugger)-380: the great humane moralist moralizing about killing a cow or a calf for her food while protecting the wild or the infirm animal from the degenerate human animals that hunt them down …. and at same time you butchering or buying your cow meat from pick and pay to put on your Sunday braai…while the Korean or Chinese meat eater is selecting his favorite cat or dog or horse meat at the morning market for his delectable dinner or lunch….
how can you call your conscience your guide when you equate the life of an apple with the life of a cow.. so where does the life of a human fit into your justified mercy killing conscience ??
Why don’t you justify cannibalism if you go so far as to justify killing life is life.. the apple or the wheat stalk is same level of life as a pig or cow or horse or cat or dog or human to you .. so who you trying to bullshit that its same degree of life… you only bullshitting yourself.. instead of buying your meat from pick and pay slaughter it yourself.. look into the eye of the little lamb before you slit its throat and cut it up and put it on your braaivleis.. then come talk justification about the equivalent of killing of apples and killing of cows..
23 Oct 2011, 00:39 am
@MG(MG)-386: very nice side now just find a coach who has eyes in his head and some brain cells between his ears to see it the same way…
23 Oct 2011, 00:42 am
lmao – an advanced gorrila, wtf u talking shite for…
23 Oct 2011, 00:45 am
Skoppie, who will be YOUR next Bok coach and captain?
Just trying to lighten the mood. You seem a bit worked up about eating goggas and kuk.
23 Oct 2011, 00:50 am
how do you think the modern human brain developed?
how do you think we developed the cognitive abilities to feel sorry for bobo the bullmastif?
The human brain requires immense amounts of energy, it is a very energy-intensive organ and evolved eating a high protein diet, long before agriculture.
catch a wake-up stop being conned by BS scriptures, when god wrote genesis he’d obviously never experienced the constant rip-snorting ****-bombs emanating from a high-fibre diet.
23 Oct 2011, 00:59 am
@kwas(kwas)-391:
Paul Treu head coach
Carel dup backline
John Mitchell forwards
Captain is a problem.. I won’t tie myself to any yet, use an interim captain like JdV and watch and see who comes through the ranks with the correct level of leadership character and expertise..
23 Oct 2011, 01:02 am
@cab(cab)-392: you talk the biggest load of kak out.. who taught you your human history … which fuckup of a useless dunce professor of archaeology taught you that man is primarily a meat eater who eats flesh of living creatures as his natural dietary intake.. which ignoramus conditioned justifying arsehole taught conditioned fucked up flesh eating dunces like you that ???
23 Oct 2011, 01:09 am
@cab(cab)-392: I haven’t eaten meat or flesh since 1970 and I can still out think and outwit you and possibly run 100 mts faster than you and I’m twice your age .. plus none of my children have ever eaten any meat in their entire lifetime and they are both far quicker witted than you and far more humane humans than you could ever hope to become….
You are so fucked up conditioned by your western predatory barbaric ignorance that you don’t even know who the fck you are or what kind species the human animal actually is.. or where it originated and what its purpose of life is for… dumb ignorant creature of conditioned self mesmerized delusions of fucked up western scientific grandeur..
so where you get your fucked up thesis on how much protein the human metabolism requires and what type protein is preferable.. as there is plenty protein from beans and pulses and nuts.. far better source of protein than the decaying lactic acidic fucked up poisonous second hand protein you get from eating the carcasses of dead decaying animals you dumb fck ignoramus dunce…
23 Oct 2011, 01:13 am
we all evolved from a common ancestor, probably a bacteria way back called ralph, who had some kids who became plants, others who became gazelles that ate the plants, and others that became lions that ate the gazelles. One of ralphs kids became apes who really ate whatever they could to survive cos food were not plentiful on the savannah and so some of them developed a taste for meat, which in turn fueled the development of bigger brains with their bigger metabolic selective demands, the kids of these bigger brained apes became humans and they have several important differences over other animals including their ape parents, for one thing they had more elongated ******* tracts for digesting meat as compared to their closest chimp relos and for another they had an especially curved respiratory structure which allows you to talk the kak you do.
all those indian civilizations wouldnt be where they are considering the morality of the universe if grandpappy had not devoured the sacred cow.
23 Oct 2011, 01:16 am
@ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-395: 1968 to be precise..
23 Oct 2011, 01:18 am
if you say so, i dont think u or your kids can do any of those things. world of difference between quick-witted streetsmarts and really deep thinking.
23 Oct 2011, 01:21 am
@cab(cab)-396: now THAT is some cockamamie fckng screwball whatsatutu theory of evolution if EVER I heard such a bullshit baffling brainless explanation on wtf YOU are ACTUALLY doing HERE on this godforsaken planet out in the far reaches of the milky way galaxy at this juncture in YOUR personal evolution.. you poor screwball denial driven lets bullshit our way to absolute delusion of who the human animal is and WTF he is ACTUALLY doing living through this rigmarole of living and dying and procreating and existing and killing and eating or being eaten for the sake of WHAT !! ??
23 Oct 2011, 01:23 am
@cab(cab)-398: so you reckon you are the deep thinker do you.. how deep do you actually think.. like how much do you ACTUALLY KNOW and how much do you just regurgitate the garbage you suck up through your dumbfck ignoramus spoon fed intellect that ACTUALLY KNOWS NOTHING ?
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