Lions roar loudest at Loftus
8 Sep 2012
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
8 Sep 2012, 17:06 pm
Anyone have a streaming link (vipbox not working)?
8 Sep 2012, 17:07 pm
do it bullish dragons
8 Sep 2012, 17:18 pm
i hate to say this but i so badly want to see elton cut his hair.
nice try bulls
8 Sep 2012, 17:22 pm
nice work blommetjies
8 Sep 2012, 17:30 pm
Girlie alert!
Helberg gets a start.
8 Sep 2012, 17:32 pm
bulls attitude greatlyimproved from last week.
8 Sep 2012, 17:32 pm
@gecko-1:
no, i do not.
8 Sep 2012, 17:34 pm
@Dawn-5:
why? are you a cougar?
8 Sep 2012, 17:34 pm
skop en jag all over again
Fouche is a M Steyn clone
8 Sep 2012, 17:42 pm
@grant10-9:
are you even watching the game, grant?
how ridiculous.
did you see the first phase try the bulls scored?
8 Sep 2012, 17:49 pm
radar not working on both sides
8 Sep 2012, 17:51 pm
dammit bulls
8 Sep 2012, 17:51 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-10: watching…missing penalties….dropped goals….reminds me of M Steyn….1 st instinct to skop
8 Sep 2012, 17:52 pm
And Helberg scores!
8 Sep 2012, 17:53 pm
noew how is that for a 10….
Jantjes far far better
8 Sep 2012, 17:55 pm
Can’t wait to see what Jean Cook and Bongi Mbonambi can do when they come on!
8 Sep 2012, 17:55 pm
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?
8 Sep 2012, 18:02 pm
@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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:05 pm
@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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:07 pm
mapoe jou bliksem
dammit bulls
8 Sep 2012, 18:08 pm
@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…
8 Sep 2012, 18:09 pm
hehe
undeserved lucky try bulls
8 Sep 2012, 18:10 pm
@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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:10 pm
vokkit
daar skop die laatie alweer mis
8 Sep 2012, 18:12 pm
Mapoe you biscuit
8 Sep 2012, 18:13 pm
well lets put it this way…..
I would not have M Steyn in my team….
or squad
or franchise
or province…
8 Sep 2012, 18:15 pm
looking forward to seeing Brussow a bit later
pity it is against my team
8 Sep 2012, 18:16 pm
@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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:17 pm
@grant10-21:
vasbyt grantie, vasbyt…
en onthou, dis altyd donkerste voor die dagbreek. die son sal weer skyn ou maat.
fark
i feel like listening to bob marley now
8 Sep 2012, 18:18 pm
and singing it
8 Sep 2012, 18:18 pm
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
8 Sep 2012, 18:19 pm
@Dawn-14: Helberg likes old aunties. He dropped his super hot girlfriend for her wrinkled, turkey necked mom.
8 Sep 2012, 18:20 pm
Poor Bakkies, looks like he will be owned in both holes.
Go Lions.
8 Sep 2012, 18:20 pm
Nice try by Taute. Lions playing some good running rugby
8 Sep 2012, 18:20 pm
Thank you Elton for Taute’s try!
Way to spark backline
8 Sep 2012, 18:20 pm
@Robzim-28:
Fark Rob….will we ever learn??
8 Sep 2012, 18:21 pm
@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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:22 pm
Watsup Duskeeee
You back with more vinegary comments?
8 Sep 2012, 18:23 pm
@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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:24 pm
jantjes toying with bulls…
8 Sep 2012, 18:24 pm
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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:24 pm
@Nils-33:
stick around nils, its a good game and anybodies yet.
you like holes?
8 Sep 2012, 18:25 pm
msteyn is a Warrior
8 Sep 2012, 18:25 pm
@Dawn-38: I never make ‘vingerary’ comments. I just dont allow myself to be limited by ‘political correctness’ aka ‘lying’
8 Sep 2012, 18:26 pm
Woohaa.
Cider vinegar
8 Sep 2012, 18:27 pm
@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 !
8 Sep 2012, 18:27 pm
@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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:28 pm
stander is class
8 Sep 2012, 18:28 pm
I want instant food
There is nothing in this flat that doesn’t involve cooking
8 Sep 2012, 18:29 pm
@Dawn-49: Mr Delivery….
8 Sep 2012, 18:30 pm
Who’s patrick???????
8 Sep 2012, 18:31 pm
in a land of Jantjes, Lambie and Goosen….
we choose MS
outta here
8 Sep 2012, 18:33 pm
Ok Lambie!
Who calls him patrick besides weirdo bakkies
8 Sep 2012, 18:33 pm
the boy from the bluff
8 Sep 2012, 18:34 pm
fark bulls!
8 Sep 2012, 18:35 pm
Mapoe has had a brilliant game!
8 Sep 2012, 18:35 pm
come on!
two drop goals and a try
8 Sep 2012, 18:35 pm
@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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:36 pm
Bulls performance doesn’t add much for those who still have sympathy for HM and the Blue Bulls way for the Boks
8 Sep 2012, 18:37 pm
Mr Delivery costs many Euros
I am poor
8 Sep 2012, 18:37 pm
@Dusky-58: After soo much hope and hype he’s turning out to be even worse than PdV
8 Sep 2012, 18:38 pm
Oh and btw
Cheetahs to take WP
8 Sep 2012, 18:40 pm
Clllllllaaaaaaaaayyyytoooooonnnnnn!
You biscuit.
8 Sep 2012, 18:40 pm
Blommetjies!
Coloured names are cool.
8 Sep 2012, 18:41 pm
blommetjies jou doring!
bulls right back in this game
to the wire again
fark
the story of the day
8 Sep 2012, 18:41 pm
Who’s claaaayYyyttonnn?
8 Sep 2012, 18:42 pm
Fouche is kak.
Whereas Pollard?
8 Sep 2012, 18:43 pm
Currie cup rugby is helter skelter.
No defence.
8 Sep 2012, 18:43 pm
oh fark me!
8 Sep 2012, 18:43 pm
Forward pass.
Fuckinell ref.
8 Sep 2012, 18:43 pm
@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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:43 pm
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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:44 pm
its touch rugby everybody….
8 Sep 2012, 18:44 pm
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
8 Sep 2012, 18:45 pm
oh bless the lord for the new tmo law trials
hahahahha
kiwis are farked
8 Sep 2012, 18:45 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-75: Yes and if it was around in 2007, the Bulls would have one less Super rugby title.
8 Sep 2012, 18:46 pm
MAPOE!!!!!!!
8 Sep 2012, 18:46 pm
i dont farken believe it!
8 Sep 2012, 18:47 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-78: What ? That the Bulls are bottom of the log ?
8 Sep 2012, 18:47 pm
i dont farken believe it !!!!
8 Sep 2012, 18:48 pm
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
8 Sep 2012, 18:49 pm
I dont either. Keo’s commentary has been on 77 minutes for about the last 15 minutes. Strange that….
8 Sep 2012, 18:49 pm
Ooomm Wynie looks like Zoomer has just proposed to his daughter.
8 Sep 2012, 18:49 pm
Be nice Duskeeee
8 Sep 2012, 18:50 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-80: You better believe it!
Bulls losing@home to a Lions team coached by slippin Ackerman
WTF
8 Sep 2012, 18:50 pm
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!!
8 Sep 2012, 18:50 pm
@Dusky-76:
that is debatble
besides, you cant retroactive these things
8 Sep 2012, 18:51 pm
@Dusky-79:
hehehe
stupid bulls
8 Sep 2012, 18:51 pm
@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 ?
8 Sep 2012, 18:51 pm
Who’s Zoomer?
8 Sep 2012, 18:52 pm
Butcher hits like Fuckadilly.
8 Sep 2012, 18:52 pm
@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.
8 Sep 2012, 18:52 pm
@Dawn-90:
Jakobus Zuma.
8 Sep 2012, 18:53 pm
Hey is it still 79 minutes ? Its been on that for about 10 minutes now ?
8 Sep 2012, 18:53 pm
@gunther-83:
@papaown-85:
its mental attitude that’s the problem.
wp and the lions…?..
computer says no…
8 Sep 2012, 18:53 pm
I think maybe the keo team are dopping ? Why aren’t they doing the updates ?
8 Sep 2012, 18:54 pm
Shitpants.
At least we win the cricket.
8 Sep 2012, 18:54 pm
@fitz1ella-86:
skop, you’re about 6 or 7 hours too late.
the bok game was on at 12pm..?..
8 Sep 2012, 18:54 pm
Bulls had no cooking clue what to do with the ball!!
What a joke!
8 Sep 2012, 18:55 pm
JC Janse van Rensburg schooling another Bok prop.
8 Sep 2012, 18:55 pm
Fulltime Duskeeee
Lions take it
8 Sep 2012, 18:56 pm
@gunther-97:
Ja, its been a bad week….. even the Tennis player from Benoni lost.
8 Sep 2012, 18:56 pm
@Dusky-92:
your facts suck
8 Sep 2012, 18:57 pm
time to switch over for the cheetahs win
8 Sep 2012, 18:57 pm
@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’
8 Sep 2012, 18:57 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-103: For you – yes they do.
8 Sep 2012, 18:59 pm
@Dusky-105:
lmao
8 Sep 2012, 18:59 pm
ok
i’m switiching over
8 Sep 2012, 19:01 pm
@Robzim-102:
Indeed.
Roger is a Saffer win or lose.
8 Sep 2012, 19:03 pm
Jantjes gave the Bulls and HM a masterclass display of 10 play….
Sommer at the Cathedral…
8 Sep 2012, 19:08 pm
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 !!
8 Sep 2012, 19:16 pm
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.
8 Sep 2012, 19:19 pm
take it easy skop
cant be good for your health
8 Sep 2012, 19:33 pm
@i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-113:
Let’s hope so.
8 Sep 2012, 19:35 pm
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.
8 Sep 2012, 19:46 pm
@gunther-114:
hehe
are you saying you want his health to decline
8 Sep 2012, 20:58 pm
class play from lions no. 10
9 Sep 2012, 00:06 am
hahahaha, Lions giving the Bulls a smack in their “fortress”……….HM take note!
9 Sep 2012, 16:42 pm
@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.
9 Sep 2012, 16:59 pm
@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.
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