Lions bolster squad
3 Nov 2011
The Lions have already made several signings during the off-season as they head into next year’s Super Rugby campaign.
It’s been reported that seven young players have joined the Currie Cup champions since the end of the domestic season.
The Cronje brothers, halfback pair Guy and Ross, have left the Sharks for the move to Johannesburg. The 22-year-old twins from Michaelhouse have been in the KZN structures since 2006, but after a lack of senior opportunities, they’ve decided to move on. This takes the count of former Sharks players in the Lions squad to seven, as the likes of Pat Cilliers, Michael Rhodes, Waylon Murray and Warren Whiteley have all made the same transfer recently.
The Lions have also recruited a second set of brothers in scrumhalf Whestley and centre Bradley Moolman, who represented the Leopards and Bulls U21s respectively this year. Other signings include Maties duo lock Stephan Greef and hooker Callie Visagie while lock Hendrik Roodt also joins after spending the year with Griquas.
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3 Nov 2011, 18:41 pm
@hendrikp(hendrikp)-250:you think?
3 Nov 2011, 18:45 pm
@hendrikp(hendrikp)-247: Haha, google and one of the other bloggers send him bits and pieces
He wishes that he actually had the real inside story
3 Nov 2011, 18:46 pm
@Transformation(Transformation)-251:
I know.
3 Nov 2011, 18:50 pm
So people get dumber as they get older.
3 Nov 2011, 18:50 pm
@JL1(JL1)-252:
Sounds like one of those supporters who pretends he has all the solutions and really wishes he had the opportunity to set Rassie and co. straight.
The ability to reason doesn’t seem like a common trait among Keo bloggers.
It’s gotten to the stage where grant wants the reserve loose-forward for Namibia (yes, the same team that got hammered in the World Cup by everyone) to be the starting openside for the Stormers, because it’s more important to have a player who claims to be a specialist on the field, then to play someone who is effective.
I pity the fool.
3 Nov 2011, 19:03 pm
6. Louw
7. Schalk
8. Koster.
3 Nov 2011, 19:25 pm
@JL1(JL1)-252: JL1 are you going to the Baabaas game?
3 Nov 2011, 19:27 pm
@hendrikp(hendrikp)-255: Play the Sarries guy?
Look at the Stormers we get quite desperate, but Grant is an emotional prima Donna that sounds like a stuck record, regurgitating the same thing over and over and over and over and over
3 Nov 2011, 19:29 pm
Pieter Louw was doing an excellent job as a fetcher until this year when he struggled with injuries.
Why should that change??
I still rate the guy very highly.
For me he shoudl play 6, with Vermeulen and Schalla playing 7 & 8 or 8 & 7, doesn’t matter.
Koster, NFW, Kolisi and co can come through gradually. On rotation.
That’s how i see it,
3 Nov 2011, 19:34 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-254:
i think that applies to me.
seems other ballies just get more immature.
not sure which is worse.
3 Nov 2011, 19:37 pm
Pity Vermuelen got injured before the World Cup. Could have given Spies a run for his money.
Really would love to know why PDV favoured Spies so much. Must have been Vic and Du Preez influence.
3 Nov 2011, 19:38 pm
Hands up who thinks that this hendrikp fella is a d00s?
1 pk en alles is gesort.
3 Nov 2011, 20:04 pm
@Tuna(Tuna)-262:
bam here it is
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=220605621338039&set=pu.151843218214280&type=1&permPage=1
3 Nov 2011, 20:16 pm
Yo stormersboy who’d you have lunch with huh huh huh?
3 Nov 2011, 20:17 pm
@willievz(willievz)-257: Sorry Willie, did not see your comment
So far it seems it will be myself and a mate, do you wanna go
3 Nov 2011, 20:50 pm
@grant10(grant10)-243: jeez Grant, you didn’t cover yourself in glory with this post. It made you look rather silly, immature and intolerant.
Like a baby who spat his dummy.
3 Nov 2011, 20:53 pm
@Dawn(Dawn)-264: No one….. (looking around nervously)
No just a mate of mine who is quite plugged in through his work to the WPRU.
No one is saying anything about the new coach saga. Apparently there’s some meeting tomorrow, national one I think so they may make some decisions there and we may hear something.
Then again, maybe not
3 Nov 2011, 20:53 pm
Funny how some can personally insult a certain player on a daily basis for years but can’t tolerate any criticism of another certain player.
Man, John Smit is a thousand times the man Luke Watson will ever be.
My opinion.
Entitled to it.
Don’t even bother trying to change it, heard it all before.
Deal with it.
Thanks.
3 Nov 2011, 21:00 pm
If i were a lions supporter i wouldn’t be too stoked with those acquisitions. Just hope mapoe can stay injury free, he looks a quality player. Need some more boeuf in the props. Maybe heinke can be lured back from ireland?
3 Nov 2011, 21:03 pm
@Tuna(Tuna)-262:
*Tuna looks around for some bigger mates to back him up*
3 Nov 2011, 21:05 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-268:
John Smit and Victor Matfield were given a really nice send-off at the SARU awards. May both go on to achieve other professional milestones wherever their careers take them. True South African rugby heroes.
3 Nov 2011, 21:07 pm
@Roar my Lions …. Currie Cup Champions 2011(RL)-263:
Who’s the player with the man boobs? He needs plastic surgery.
3 Nov 2011, 21:24 pm
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-270: One man show. Suprised you are actually posting here after you made your name tits a few days ago. Sucks to be you…
3 Nov 2011, 21:24 pm
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-272: that looks like Cilliers …. you know the same man bood that ran over that iron woman Deysel to score a brilliant try.
3 Nov 2011, 21:24 pm
@wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-268: as an outsider I think they both come across sound blokes, neither without flaws but who is? They didn’t get along at certain points but not everyone can all of the time. I don’t see any need to take sides or to insult/denigrate them.
3 Nov 2011, 21:27 pm
@Tuna(Tuna)-273:
Did you find a few good men to back you up yet?
3 Nov 2011, 21:28 pm
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-272: Why?are they too small for your liking?
3 Nov 2011, 21:29 pm
@Roar my Lions …. Currie Cup Champions 2011(RL)-263: Ja boet and this piece of work they call GWS still don’t see the domination that happened this past weekend. A world without losers, there will be no winners. Thank you GWS. No go back and go chew on your bar of soap.
3 Nov 2011, 21:29 pm
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-276: As the prostit ute said, “a hard man is good to find”
3 Nov 2011, 21:30 pm
@Roar my Lions …. Currie Cup Champions 2011(RL)-274:
Not too sure what man bood is but I’m guessing you had your point to make and you made it in typical half english half afrikaans fashion. You go girl.
3 Nov 2011, 21:30 pm
@JL1(JL1)-277:
3 Nov 2011, 21:31 pm
@JL1(JL1)-279:
Aich!!!
3 Nov 2011, 21:34 pm
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-276: No need, maybe you should get the Sharks team to come and back you up. Oh wait….. they still trying to figure out WTF happened to them this past Saturday. You all alone…..
3 Nov 2011, 21:34 pm
@Great White Shark(Predawn)-282: Or the sign at the ladies dormitory :”Lights out by ten of clock, candles out by eleven”
3 Nov 2011, 21:39 pm
Or …the two most common elements in the world, hydrogen and stupidity
3 Nov 2011, 21:45 pm
@Big Hit(Big Hit)-275: sorry, any SA rugby player who wants to puke on the Bok is a maaifoedie.
3 Nov 2011, 21:58 pm
Hendrik roodt is a solid gain for the lions, wonder if jean deysel will stay at lock for sharks considering they have kankowski, alberts, daniel, coetzee etc
3 Nov 2011, 22:08 pm
@frozen wolf(frozen wolf)-287: kankowski is the weak link in that lot, closely followed by Daniel.
Of those loose forwards I’d play:
8 Alberts
7 Deysel
6 Daniel
however the Sharks DESPERATELY need a true fetcher in the mould of Brussow or Pocock. Daniel just doesn’t do it in this regard.
4 Nov 2011, 21:47 pm
To all you lions fans out there i never wished you congrats on winning the CC and i am doing so now,the lions were the best team in the competition and they deserved to win it,i am glad the poxy sharks never won it.
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