Lions roar loudest at Loftus

Lions roar loudest at Loftus

JON CARDINELLI writes the Golden Lions scored four tries in their 32-23 win against the Blue Bulls on Saturday.

It was a match where the Lions’ adventurous attitude was rewarded, and where the Bulls’ poor defence and abysmal goal-kicking was punished.

The Bulls led 8-3 for much of the first half, but some wayward goal-kicking by Louis Fouche prevented the hosts from building on that lead. Fouche missed two kicks at goal and also sent a drop attempt wide. If one is to consider the final scoreline, you would have to say that these misses were incredibly costly.

So too were the lapses in concentration during periods before and after half-time. Lions wing Deon Helberg rounded off some enterprising play in the dying minutes of the first half, and centre Alwyn Hollenbach crossed the line early in the second. They were scores that changed the complexion of the game, as the Lions went to a 15-8 lead.

While Fouche had struggled with his goal-kicking, Lions flyhalf Elton Jantjies also battled at times with his accuracy. The Lions were clearly on top in the second half, but Jantjies failed to convert kickable penalties into points. Replacement Jaco Taute also had a long-range shot that fell short of the crossbar.

A mistake by Lionel Mapoe allowed the Bulls a turnover, and this culminated in a try for Bulls centre Francois Venter. The ensuing conversion brought the scores level at 15-15.

But some brilliance by Mapoe and Jantjies would see the Lions hitting back immediately. Mapoe made the initial break, and from the subsequent phase, Jantjies produced a deft chip over the defence. The Lions flyhalf regathered before delivering a great inside ball to Taute, who then ran 30m to score.

On the 60-minute mark, Jantjies added another penalty that took the Lions out to a 10-point lead. The Bulls stayed in touch with a penalty and try of their own, but a missed conversion by Fouche meant the Lions held a slender two-point advantage as the match approached its climax.

The Bulls’ desperation began to tell, as they made some elementary errors that effectively killed off any chance of a fightback. The Lions continued to come at the hosts, and after having one try disallowed, it was Mapoe who finished in the right-hand corner to bank the bonus point.

The result sees the Lions moving up the Currie Cup table, while the Bulls remain in last place.


120 Comments

  • 1.gecko: Reply to this comment

    Anyone have a streaming link (vipbox not working)?

  • 2.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    do it bullish dragons

  • 3.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    i hate to say this but i so badly want to see elton cut his hair.

    nice try bulls

  • 4.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    nice work blommetjies

  • 5.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Girlie alert!

    Helberg gets a start.

  • 6.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    bulls attitude greatlyimproved from last week.

  • 7.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @gecko-1:
    no, i do not.

  • 8.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @Dawn-5:
    why? are you a cougar?

  • 9.grant10: Reply to this comment

    skop en jag all over again

    Fouche is a M Steyn clone

  • 10.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @grant10-9:
    are you even watching the game, grant?
    how ridiculous.
    did you see the first phase try the bulls scored?

  • 11.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    radar not working on both sides

  • 12.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    dammit bulls

  • 13.grant10: Reply to this comment

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-10: watching…missing penalties….dropped goals….reminds me of M Steyn….1 st instinct to skop

  • 14.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    And Helberg scores!
    :lol:

  • 15.grant10: Reply to this comment

    noew how is that for a 10….

    Jantjes far far better

  • 16.RAI8: Reply to this comment

    Can’t wait to see what Jean Cook and Bongi Mbonambi can do when they come on!

  • 17.grant10: Reply to this comment

    so Bakkies

    praat my moed in boet….

    I am getting worried…

    Is HM the right guy for us…..? I am worried now….

    And are you still saying M Steyn the best for us at 10?

  • 18.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @grant10-13:
    hehe
    so he missed a few, its an off day

    @grant10-17:
    honeslty grant, its not the best of starts but its not the worst of starts either.
    a bigger test for these boks and heyneke would be for them to win both their home games against anzacs.

    i believe he will sweat bricks to get it right, in a very challenging environment, and if the hard work pays off then the boks will click and lift from there.

  • 19.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @grant10-17:
    i did like the look of goosen for the short time he was on but at this stage the best thing for goosen and the boks is to persevere with morne.

    morne general play was actually quite good but as we saw his kicking to posts was short when needed most. and thats really why he’s in the team.

    maybe he needs to be dropped to give hime a wakeup.

  • 20.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    mapoe jou bliksem

    dammit bulls

  • 21.grant10: Reply to this comment

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-19:
    LOL

    Ok Bakkies….

    if you say so…..

    But I remain farken worried bort….

    Te veel skop….

    Kyk wat gebeur as jy n bietjie die shackles losmaak…..

    sood die leeus met n aanvallende 10…

  • 22.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    hehe
    undeserved lucky try bulls

  • 23.Big Hit: Reply to this comment

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-19: I didn’t think his general play was good bakkies, he nearly butchered the try twice, his tackling was poor, he missed two drop-goals in front of posts and a straightforward shot and made virtually no breaks.

    Was his tactical and line-kicking that good? not that I saw.

  • 24.grant10: Reply to this comment

    vokkit

    daar skop die laatie alweer mis

  • 25.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Mapoe you biscuit

  • 26.grant10: Reply to this comment

    well lets put it this way…..

    I would not have M Steyn in my team….

    or squad

    or franchise

    or province…

  • 27.grant10: Reply to this comment

    looking forward to seeing Brussow a bit later

    pity it is against my team

  • 28.Robzim: Reply to this comment

    @grant10-26:

    Neither would I
    I swear I rather play Peter Grant before i play Morne and as you know that says a lot.

    Jantjes is true class.

  • 29.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @grant10-21:
    vasbyt grantie, vasbyt… :lol:

    en onthou, dis altyd donkerste voor die dagbreek. die son sal weer skyn ou maat.

    fark

    i feel like listening to bob marley now :lol:

  • 30.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    and singing it :lol:

  • 31.grant10: Reply to this comment

    Bok management are mad not to use Jantjes….showing class here….this is what we need …not a M Steyn clone….what class man…e to see taute back

  • 32.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @Dawn-14: Helberg likes old aunties. He dropped his super hot girlfriend for her wrinkled, turkey necked mom.

  • 33.Nils: Reply to this comment

    Poor Bakkies, looks like he will be owned in both holes.

    Go Lions. :D

  • 34.umad: Reply to this comment

    Nice try by Taute. Lions playing some good running rugby

  • 35.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Thank you Elton for Taute’s try!

    Way to spark backline

  • 36.grant10: Reply to this comment

    @Robzim-28:
    Fark Rob….will we ever learn??

  • 37.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @Big Hit-23:
    you overlook his positive contributions. he was a part of the first try.
    did kick well mostly, attacked the line a number of times, was prepared to run with the ball.

    i agreed on his kicking though, because that’s most importanlty why he’s there.

  • 38.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Watsup Duskeeee

    You back with more vinegary comments?

  • 39.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @gecko-1: No external stream of this game. Only supersport, so if you are not in SA – you cant watch.

    Because of DSTV needing to line the pockets of the corrupt politicians helping them to retain the monopoly on TV in South Africa they have to sell the rights to third party service providers internationally to cover some games which means that they block IP addresses outside of South Africa from logging in at their website.

    Typical, small minded & limited African thinking. Can’t see the bigger prize.

  • 40.grant10: Reply to this comment

    jantjes toying with bulls…

  • 41.fitz1ella: Reply to this comment

    this what you call RUGBY

    Not that pathetic Heyneke Meyer GARBAGE you saw this morning

    Check what a ball in hand RUNNING team with CONFIDENCE can do

    This Lions outfit out of the S15 and showing the REST of Sa rugby what proper springbok rugby SHOULD be aiming for

    Bondisio, Jantjies, Hollenbach, Mapoe, Taute, Combrink and Coetsee

    SO much better than the garbage we saw from

    Pienaar, Steyn, Steyn, JdV, Mvovo, Kirchner today

    Mapoe has made 2 tries skinning fancied Bulls midfield more than once, Jantjies running the game like an old hand maestro, Coetsee at back is an Israel Dagg, Christian Cullen lookalike..

    Janse Van Rensburg and Adriaanse would offer better service up front than JdP and Beast too.

  • 42.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @Nils-33:
    stick around nils, its a good game and anybodies yet.

    you like holes? :grin:

  • 43.Transformation: Reply to this comment

    msteyn is a Warrior

  • 44.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @Dawn-38: I never make ‘vingerary’ comments. I just dont allow myself to be limited by ‘political correctness’ aka ‘lying’

  • 45.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Woohaa.

    Cider vinegar

  • 46.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @fitz1ella-41: Yes…yay….you have figured it out. We need to find a Bok team that has the same gulf in quality between itself and the All Blacks and Australia as a Super 15 vs. Vodacom Cup team.

    Geez….revolutionary – you found the answer !

  • 47.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @Robzim-28:
    ja, he is good but super rugby has shown him up.
    if the pressure of super rugby is high how much higher bok rugby.

    i am not saying he should not be an option though.
    but it would still pick goosen or morne ahead of him or patrick.

  • 48.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    stander is class

  • 49.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    I want instant food

    There is nothing in this flat that doesn’t involve cooking

  • 50.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @Dawn-49: Mr Delivery….

  • 51.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Who’s patrick???????

  • 52.grant10: Reply to this comment

    in a land of Jantjes, Lambie and Goosen….

    we choose MS

    outta here

  • 53.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Ok Lambie!

    Who calls him patrick besides weirdo bakkies

  • 54.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    the boy from the bluff

  • 55.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    fark bulls!

  • 56.papaown: Reply to this comment

    Mapoe has had a brilliant game!

  • 57.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    come on!

    two drop goals and a try

  • 58.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @grant10-52: Not ‘we’ dude….Heyneke Meyer chooses Morne Steyn and in the end, as with all Bok coaches he will live or die as a Springbok coach by his decisions.

    Heyneke wont see the next world cup. He will be long gone by then, if not already by the end of next year. He has a head made of brick, and quite obviously refuses to admit his selections are fallible or that certain players are past their best.

    What he doesn’t realise is that the tactic of sticking his head in the ground and ignoring the problem hasn’t helped any Bok coach survive so far. I think he might turn out to be one of the worst ever along with Rudolph Straueli and Harry Viljoen.

  • 59.papaown: Reply to this comment

    Bulls performance doesn’t add much for those who still have sympathy for HM and the Blue Bulls way for the Boks

  • 60.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Mr Delivery costs many Euros

    I am poor

  • 61.papaown: Reply to this comment

    @Dusky-58: After soo much hope and hype he’s turning out to be even worse than PdV :-(

  • 62.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Oh and btw

    Cheetahs to take WP

  • 63.gunther: Reply to this comment

    Clllllllaaaaaaaaayyyytoooooonnnnnn!

    You biscuit.

  • 64.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Blommetjies! :lol:

    Coloured names are cool.

  • 65.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    blommetjies jou doring!

    bulls right back in this game

    to the wire again

    fark

    the story of the day

  • 66.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Who’s claaaayYyyttonnn?

  • 67.gunther: Reply to this comment

    Fouche is kak.

    Whereas Pollard?

  • 68.Robzim: Reply to this comment

    Currie cup rugby is helter skelter.
    No defence.

  • 69.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    oh fark me!

  • 70.gunther: Reply to this comment

    Forward pass.

    Fuckinell ref.

  • 71.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @papaown-61: Yes. I must admit being one of those who has called for HM to be coach in the past, and was very pleased at his appointment.

    What I did not credit him with was the ability to make a complete hash of things from the get go, dish out new Springbok colors to 11 players in his first 5 games and shout into his radio handset like a raving lunatic on a mixture of steroids and speedball.

    I am afraid he has begun to show himself up very early on. Unfortunately the names Victor Matfield, Bakkies Botha, Fourie Du Preez, Danie Rossouw and Gary Botha are not around to win games for him despite his poor coaching acumen.

  • 72.fitz1ella: Reply to this comment

    This Andries Coetsee is absolute class got pure rugby ingenuity oozing out of every pore in his rugby Intelligent body and these DUMB f’ng MORONIC Thick idiotic Springbok coaches select outright imbeciles to represent the national team.

    This Lionel Mapoe would also offer at lest 50% more go forward in a Bok jersey than we saw from the morons on display today.

    As for a Jantjies / Morne Steyn comparison, there simply isn’t one, they not even REMOTELY in the same league

    Morne Steyn belongs in Kindergarten rugby league compared to Jantjies who is at least 20 rungs up on the ladder of rugby pivot ability.

  • 73.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    its touch rugby everybody….

  • 74.papaown: Reply to this comment

    Great try by the Bulls but came from Lions kicking away possesion! Why revert back to what u were NOT doing to give you the lead in the last minutes of the game??

    Continue with the posession based game and leave the kicking!

    Bulls can’t score if they don’t have the ball

  • 75.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    oh bless the lord for the new tmo law trials

    hahahahha

    kiwis are farked

  • 76.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-75: Yes and if it was around in 2007, the Bulls would have one less Super rugby title.

  • 77.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    MAPOE!!!!!!!

  • 78.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    i dont farken believe it!

  • 79.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-78: What ? That the Bulls are bottom of the log ?

  • 80.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    i dont farken believe it !!!!

  • 81.papaown: Reply to this comment

    Franco Vd Merwe’s forward pass has at least not come to haunt the Lions!

    Great attacking play again by this team for Mapoe’s try.

    MoM definetely Mapoe

  • 82.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    I dont either. Keo’s commentary has been on 77 minutes for about the last 15 minutes. Strange that….

  • 83.gunther: Reply to this comment

    Ooomm Wynie looks like Zoomer has just proposed to his daughter.

  • 84.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Be nice Duskeeee

  • 85.papaown: Reply to this comment

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-80: You better believe it!

    Bulls losing@home to a Lions team coached by slippin Ackerman

    WTF

  • 86.fitz1ella: Reply to this comment

    Meyer must Fck OFF .., and Fck Off NOW !!

    This dumb f’ng useless THICK as 3 bricks MORON don’t have a vague f’ng Foggy faint CLUE about WTF is actually going ON!!

  • 87.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @Dusky-76:
    :grin:

    that is debatble

    besides, you cant retroactive these things :lol:

  • 88.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @Dusky-79:
    hehehe

    stupid bulls

  • 89.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @papaown-85: If the Bulls end last in the Currie Cup, can the Lions request a promotion/relegation playoff against them for the rights to play Super rugby next year ?

  • 90.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Who’s Zoomer?

  • 91.gunther: Reply to this comment

    Butcher hits like Fuckadilly.

  • 92.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-87: Not debatable at all. The only place it’s ‘debatable’ is in Pretoria. The video is still on youtube for all the see the three infringements that lead to Habana’s try. Doesn’t really bug me any more – but just being factual.

  • 93.Robzim: Reply to this comment

    @Dawn-90:

    Jakobus Zuma.

  • 94.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    Hey is it still 79 minutes ? Its been on that for about 10 minutes now ?

  • 95.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @gunther-83:
    :lol:

    @papaown-85:
    its mental attitude that’s the problem.

    wp and the lions…?..

    computer says no…

  • 96.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    I think maybe the keo team are dopping ? Why aren’t they doing the updates ?

  • 97.gunther: Reply to this comment

    Shitpants.

    At least we win the cricket.

  • 98.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @fitz1ella-86:
    skop, you’re about 6 or 7 hours too late.
    the bok game was on at 12pm..?..

  • 99.papaown: Reply to this comment

    Bulls had no cooking clue what to do with the ball!!

    What a joke!

  • 100.Hop Hop Spinnekop: Reply to this comment

    JC Janse van Rensburg schooling another Bok prop.

  • 101.Dawn: Reply to this comment

    Fulltime Duskeeee

    Lions take it

  • 102.Robzim: Reply to this comment

    @gunther-97:

    Ja, its been a bad week….. even the Tennis player from Benoni lost.

  • 103.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @Dusky-92:
    your facts suck :lol:

  • 104.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    time to switch over for the cheetahs win :grin:

  • 105.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @gunther-97: pffffffffff…..:-D

    Ja, I am sure all those oomies wiff their brandewyn & coke boeps, bulls shirts and safari pak shorts, socks and vellies are going home with their vet tannies in their Hilux thinking ‘at least we kan laaik to win cricket’

  • 106.Dusky: Reply to this comment

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-103: For you – yes they do.

  • 107.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @Dusky-105:
    lmao :lol:

  • 108.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    ok
    i’m switiching over

  • 109.gunther: Reply to this comment

    @Robzim-102:

    Indeed.

    Roger is a Saffer win or lose.

  • 110.grant10: Reply to this comment

    Jantjes gave the Bulls and HM a masterclass display of 10 play….

    Sommer at the Cathedral…

  • 111.fitz1ella: Reply to this comment

    I watched that outright trash heap fckd up garbage that Heyneke Meyer with his CLUELESS non compos mentis thick as 3 f’ng BRICKS hopeless excuse of a so called rugby strategically inept game plan dished up against a MEDIOCRE half baked Wallabies outfit.

    If THAT outright garbage TRASH is what this hopeless f’ng clueless MORON Has in store for Sa rugby supposed PROGRESS than SA rugby is in FAR worse f’ng state of outright fallout than they ready to recognize.

    Meyer must FCKOFF and FckOFF NOW !!

  • 112.Lang Giel: Reply to this comment

    Blue Bulls should get rid of loud, useless Pine Pienaar. Another abortion of a coach that joined the Broeders in P-town. Since they all subscribe to the Heyneke Meyer coaching manual for the dimwitted, Bulls rugby may be on a slippery slope before the end of the season.

  • 113.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    take it easy skop

    cant be good for your health

  • 114.gunther: Reply to this comment

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-113:

    Let’s hope so.

  • 115.blueboy: Reply to this comment

    I never saw today`s bulls game and i am glad i did not,i am a life long bulls fan and i say to the management and players at loftus,your loyal fans pay good money to watch the shite you are playing and this is totally UNACCEPTABLE the way you are playing and the fans want answers and they have a right to ask WTF is going on at loftus.After last weekends performance,which was absolutely Deploreable i thought we could beat the lions at loftus as it turns out it was another dismal performance,and the question is where do we go from hear.

  • 116.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment

    @gunther-114:
    hehe
    are you saying you want his health to decline

  • 117.hsark: Reply to this comment

    class play from lions no. 10

  • 118.whatever: Reply to this comment

    hahahaha, Lions giving the Bulls a smack in their “fortress”……….HM take note!

  • 119.Tjokker: Reply to this comment

    @Dusky-89: Yes Dawn, sure the Lions can request it, but it’s not going to happens! The Lions played excellent rugby in the 2011 Currie Cup and deserved the crown. I enjoy their style of play but reality is that they ended where in the 2012 S15? They are playing great rugby at the moment and outplayed the (stupid) Bulls yesterday.

    Take in consideration that the Bulls has 11 players on Springbok duties (if I was Heyneke it would have been only 4 players) and the untimely injuries to Arno Botha and Stegmann does’nt help either. Yes I realise that the Lions have some injuries as well.

    Enjoy the Currie Cup and support your team, but be realistic.

  • 120.Tjokker: Reply to this comment

    @whatever-118: Heyneke took notice…..what happened in the S15 matches. Unfortunately the Lions played liked Kittens or is it ***** Cats?

    By the way, I think Jantjes deserves a proper chance in the Bok team and the same for Taute (who was injured – not HM’s mistake) and Lionel Mapoe has shown on several occasions that he can’t be worse than Jean de Villiers.

Keo.co.za has always promoted uncensored views, but has never tolerated racist or crass outbursts. Come on guys and girls. If you can't moderate yourselves or each other then I am going to be forced to regulate the posts and enforce a registration process for comments. The choice is yours.

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