Jantjies wins battle of the boot

Jantjies wins battle of the boot

25 Feb 2012

RYAN VREDE watched Elton Jantjies kick nine penalties as the Lions beat the Cheetahs 27-25 at Ellis Park.

The match lacked nothing in terms of brutality on defence, with spine-rattling hits in regular supply from both sides. However, a string of breakdown penalties spoiled the attacking flow of the contest. It has been apparent even at this early stage that referees have taken the IRB’s directive to clamp down on this facet of play seriously. Teams will need to make sharp adjustments in this regard in the coming weeks.

In the first half the Cheetahs controlled the ball better through phases and profited from the Lions’ regular infringements at ruck time, Johan Goosen banking three penalties, including a 58m monster, as well as a drop goal from the halfway line. He also converted WP Nel’s try, the prop driving over after one of the few instances in the game where either side played through more than seven phases.

Jantjies responded with four penalties, but the Lions, pinned in their territory for large periods of the first 40 through an intelligent kicking game, squandered the little possession they had. Their cause was further undermined by their acute struggles at the lineout. They regularly picked out a Cheetahs jumper or allowed their feed to be disrupted.

The hosts found their groove in the second half and while they still lacked any notable penetration with ball in hand until late in the piece, they did build pressure in a manner they weren’t able to in the first half. Jantjies and Goosen kept their kicking duel going until Goosen was sin binned for a breakdown infringement with his team leading 25-19. There were opportunities for the visitors to extend their lead with kickable three pointers in Goosen’s absence. Jantjies landed two more as his counterpart watched from the wood, to take the Lions to within a point with 15 minutes to play.

Goosen then went off permanently with 10 to go after taking a solid knock to the jaw. Jantjies missed a challenging kick that would have taken them into the lead but Goosen’s replacement, Sias Ebersohn, made an awful attempt at stretching their lead nine minutes from the end. Jantjies capitalised on that miss, sinking his record-breaking ninth penalty, and the Lions clung on for an important home win.


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  • 251.CoachPete: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:04 pm

    @Hondo(Hondo)-249:

    you may be right but he may also be our best 9 too
    There are plenty of 11s out there
    Also 9 s do a lot of roaming :)

  • 252.Bod: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:04 pm

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-248: I presume that would be you…. oh purveyor of Will Genia, Quade Cooper and……… Gary van Aswegan!

  • 253.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:05 pm

    Given the amount of time our new antipodean friend P****Boksgoingsouth is spending here, and the vitriolic anti-Saffa content, I reckon it’s that old peophol Poppa back under a new name.

    P.S. every time he says “Yappie” I crack up :lol:

  • 254.PrickBoks going South: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:07 pm

    who said anything about the dole-bludgers ?!

    dumb whinging Yappies. Say something about their boring bonehead bashathons and their only response is “but the Kiwis”.

    who mentioned the Kiwis ?

    can’t pigeonhole, can’t thunk

  • 255.Hondo: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:07 pm

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-244:
    Interesting to note, Januarie, Benjamine and the Roses too, all showed some great proficiencies in that Dept.
    A coincidence?
    ;)

  • 256.CoachPete: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:08 pm

    @Bod(bod)-250:
    No, I dont always agree with Skoppie But do many times because he is very often right.
    I ts about respecting someones opinion

  • 257.PrickBoks going South: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:09 pm

    silly whinging Yappies, I ain’t no Antipodean.

    desperately seeking pigeonhole

    can’t thunk

  • 258.CoachPete: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:10 pm

    @PrickBoks going South(PrickBoks going South)-254:
    Yap Yap Yap

  • 259.cab: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:10 pm

    Ai ai doc.

  • 260.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:11 pm

    What’s this “thunk” business.

  • 261.CoachPete: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:14 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-260:
    everytime he talks he get concussed “Thunk”

  • 262.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:14 pm

    That’s one thing Hondo got right ..

    People cannot see Duvenhage’s class.. Duvenhage is best SA scrummy by far.. better than Hougaard, better than De Bruyn, better than Vermaak, better than Mcleod or Hoffman, though Mcleod was a whole lot better than Michalak yesterday and if Sharks had started him they might have won…

    Next best SA scrummy might actually be Stormers number 2 Schreuder..

    Hougaard I would still leave at 9 though, I would not play him at wing.. Hougaard must simply learn to get the ball from out the ruck pronto and not make like these other prima donna has been’s who sit for eons at ruck base while contemplating their naval as the No.8 concerns himself with either releasing the ball or driving it up..

    AC should not have yanked off Van Aswegen.. he was erratic and made some poor mistakes.. but he still one huge level of potential ahead of Burton Francis…

  • 263.Bod: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:15 pm

    @CoachPete(CoachPete)-256: Surely you can correct him in the absolute c r a p he is talking about Schalk Burger and Gary van Aswegan

    Or unless you agree with his opinion….

  • 264.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:17 pm

    I think this Prickbock yap yapper is none other than that Pomeranian poefta old crotchety crouch St Mike

  • 265.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:20 pm

    Nah never heard ol’ St Mich utter a single swear word in his time. This yapper is as uncouth as they come.

  • 266.cab: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:20 pm

    could be nils but he too much gentleman, could be spanish racist fella but he likes boks. might be a completely new specimen all together. all we know is he dislikes pricks and yap yap and the dole bludgers and the thunking antepodeans.

  • 267.Bod: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:20 pm

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-262: Finally as I go to bed you make some sense at last…. Duvenhage is SA’s best scrummy by a mile.

    Lets not go into Gary and Schalk….

    Outta here

  • 268.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:21 pm

    This yapper is totally lacking in the class and brains department. As repetitive as grass growth in the summer, too. Yawn.

  • 269.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:22 pm

    Nah I reckon he’s an old customer. Just trying to cover his tracks, is all.

    Popps and Panty the two prime suspects.

  • 270.CoachPete: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:25 pm

    @Bod(bod)-263:

    No I dont agree with skoppie about skalk except when it comes to captain
    Skalk is a better player when not captain IMO
    I think Skalk is a great bok
    GVA is the best of the 10s stormers have, but not as good as Goosen IMO
    I agree with him about Hougaard staying at 9 and Duvenhage as potential bok back up

  • 271.Bod: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:25 pm

    @cab(cab)-266:

    “Spanish racist fella”????? No es yo espero???

  • 272.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:25 pm

    Totally agree, Schalk is a great player, gives his all, but he aint no cappy.

  • 273.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:26 pm

    @Bod(bod)-271: Think he’s talking about Markel77. Don’t think the guy is racist at all. Actually quite a nice guy, like the Sharks.

  • 274.cab: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:26 pm

    @Bod(bod)-271:
    nah there was another basque fella on here, dunno if he was racist but seemed pretty nationalistic, funny bugger.

  • 275.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:26 pm

    like=likes

  • 276.Dawn: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:28 pm

    Keegan no cappy either

  • 277.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:29 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-276: Agreed! I don’t reckon he is a sure fire starter either.

  • 278.Bod: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:29 pm

    @CoachPete(CoachPete)-270:

    Coach… I am tired and have a mountain to climb and descend tomorrow

    hasta luego

  • 279.CoachPete: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:29 pm

    @Dawn(Dawn)-276: agree 100%
    Also a great player who does not need the burden of been captain

  • 280.CoachPete: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:30 pm

    @Bod(bod)-278:
    Cheers Remember everyone is entitled to their opinion

  • 281.cab: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:31 pm

    @Bod(bod)-278:
    is this with the mountain bike?
    yessus why dont you rather use ropes and spikes like normal folk?

  • 282.CoachPete: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:32 pm

    @wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-277:
    I like him as a player he has speed and is aggressive

  • 283.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:33 pm

    @CoachPete(CoachPete)-282: Ja me too but when Alberts and Deysel come back he will struggle for a place. Coetzee is the business and Botes is the closest thing we have to a fetcher.

  • 284.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:33 pm

    Kanko is a no no. He’s treading on thin ice now, very close to Vodacom rugby.

  • 285.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:35 pm

    Later coach, I’m out for the night.

  • 286.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:38 pm

    Genia is class top Aussie scrummy who put Crusaders out the S14 last year with a solo effort.. I ain’t a big Cooper fan,, blows hot and cold.. and suspect under pressure, though FdP couldn’t beat him to a floating ball over Aussie try line after Bismark charged his clearance drop down..

    Schalk as much of a do or die kamikaze headless pilot he is is wrong for Stormers synergy , big tackler, poor distributor, poor mid field link man, poor ball carrier, wrong man for captaincy.. both JdV and Bekker much better..

    Francois Louw should have been Stormers captain.. and who knows perhaps even Boks captain.. he’s the kind of real class non ostentatious quiet controlled leadership material that could really have taken both Stormers and Bok’s places… perhaps he might still will, though Meyer probably thinking FdP, then Spies and then Arno Botha are his lined up chappies…

  • 287.Bod: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:39 pm

    @cab(cab)-281: Simple reason Cab… There is nothing more orgasmic that heading down a mountain on an all mountain bike.

    Chat Monday…

  • 288.CoachPete: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:41 pm

    @wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-285:
    cheers me too
    nite all

  • 289.cab: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:45 pm

    @Bod(bod)-287:
    u need to speak to a chap called Duiwel, also loves the mountain-biking…

    cheers

  • 290.wooden spoon: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:48 pm

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-286: hold on, before I go. “Poor distributor”? Did you see Schalk put the pass away to Aplon for the 1st try today?

  • 291.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:49 pm

    Brussow was poor choice for Boks open side at WC.. he couldn’t protect Schalk when Aussie gang tackled him and scored the try.. and then went off inhured not long after .. and Brussow seems a spent force under current laws and conditions… Louw should have started the quarter final.. I reckon we might have won it.

    My current new breed of loose forwards

    Vermeulen, Kolisi, Botha, Stander, Coetsee, Elstadt, Minnie, Rhodes, Van Velze, Koster, Carr, Stegmann..

    Locks

    Bekker, Kruger, Etsebeth, Steenkamp, Sykes

    Front row

    Greyling, Malherbe, Kruger, Mujati, JdP, Cilliers, Herbst, Beast.

    Hookers

    Bismark, Chili, Strauss, Liebenberg, Burden, Brits.

  • 292.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:51 pm

    I got in late arrived after Aplon touched down,

    Schalk not a great distributor, perhaps he got one right today, but I seen him botch too many..

  • 293.ashampoopaloo: Reply to this comment
    25 Feb 2012, 23:58 pm

    @ashampoopaloo(joel1yahoo)-291: Jaques Potgieter also top flight blind side flank

    we got a real problem selecting a Bok loose trio, far too many top flight players to choose from..

  • 294.Kleuter: Reply to this comment
    26 Feb 2012, 00:31 am

    @PrickBoks going South(PrickBoks going South)-257: See you went AWOL very quickly now that the boys are on to you? Groot d00s

  • 295.Kleuter: Reply to this comment
    26 Feb 2012, 00:32 am

    So 2 serious injuries this week; Sadie and Burger. Hope they’re not too serious.

  • 296.Winesy83: Reply to this comment
    27 Feb 2012, 03:34 am

    I’m just happy all these young 10′s are Saffers. Putting too much pressure on them too early is what will damage these guys and force them overseas, ala Frans Steyn. So many people on here seem so angry and desperate to champion their man and belittle the others. From what I saw, Goosen looks a very confident young man with a massive boot and potential, but he could end up a willem de waal. Jantjies looks exciting and brings his runners onto the ball nicely and he kicks well, Lambie played ok but the Sharks looked better with Bosman at 10. Last year everyone on here was saying Sias was the next big thing. The fact is all these guys are young and we don’t know how much better they will become, but they stand the best chance of reaching their potential if they are not rushed into the Boks after one super rugby game then criticised and dropped and spat out.

  • 297.PrickBoks going South: Reply to this comment
    27 Feb 2012, 05:56 am

    @wooden spoon(wooden spoon)-265:

    hey Einstein

    where did I swear ?

    cant piegonhole, cant thunk

  • 298.PrickBoks going South: Reply to this comment
    27 Feb 2012, 05:59 am

    @Kleuter(Kleuter)-294:

    is this where you prove your manhood ?

    thunk again, Yappie

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