Jantjies back at 10

Jantjies back at 10

16 Oct 2012

Elton Jantjies will start at flyhalf in a Golden Lions team that sees 11 changes for the semi-final against Western Province.

Jantjies replaces Butch James, who drops to the bench. Coach Johan Ackermann has also opted for a new scrumhalf in Michael Bondesio.

Other changes to the backline see Jaco Taute replacing Deon van Rensburg at No 13, Ruan Combrinck shifting to wing and Andries Coetzee coming in at fullback.

Captain JC Janse van Rensburg returns at loosehead prop while Jacobie Adriaanse replaces Pat Cilliers on the other side of the scrum. Lock Franco van der Merwe is back in the starting side while the back row reshuffles with Cobus Grobbelaar starting at No 6, Jaco Kriel at No 7, and Warren Whiteley at No 8.

Lions – 15 Andries Coetzee, 14 Ruan Combrinck, 13 Jaco Taute, 12 Alwyn Hollenbach/ Dylan des Fountain, 11 Anthony Volmink, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Michael Bondesio, 8 Warren Whiteley, 7 Jaco Kriel, 6 Cobus Grobbelaar, 5 Franco van der Merwe, 4 Michael Rhodes, 3 Jacobie Adriaanse, 2 Callie Visagie, 1 JC Janse van Rensburg (c)
Subs: 16 Bandise Maku, 17 CJ van der Linde/Pat Cilliers, 18 Hendrik Roodt, 19 Derick Minnie, 20 Ross Cronje, 21 Butch James, 22 Deon Helberg


47 Comments

  • 1.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 12:46 pm

    Oh, but I like the look of this team. 11 Changes, 10 improvements (not sure about dropping Cilliers to the bench).

    This match 22, at home, will be too strong for the Province boys (who aren’t so keen to travel north).

    Lions: 28
    WP: 18

  • 2.wing_14: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 12:50 pm

    @katman-1: Not so much katman, Province wont make that mistake again. It will be tough no doubt but this WP side is just too good. Did you not watch them demolish the Cheetahs last Saturday?

  • 3.Hop Hop Spinnekop: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 12:51 pm

    @katman-1: Jonker the ref….. advantage Province.

  • 4.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:08 pm

    @Hop Hop Spinnekop-3: Ag nee, Jonker is a plonker. I can just imagine him having to tell Deon Fourie to take it easy after he’s already let him get away with murder at the ruck 10 times, and the crowd are getting a little more than restless. Old Marius, sweating nervously as he eyes the exit tunnels at Ellis Park.

    “There must be some way out of here” said Jonker to the thief.

  • 5.bokfan1: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:22 pm

    So was it a B-team that played the Bulls?
    As much of a fan of Jantjies as I am – I thought Butch looked very good at 10 on Sat.

    @katman-1: Sterkte vir jou span Katman! Die telling was mos 22-9 so 3 weke terug, maar ek hoop my WP kan die’ keer beter doen.

    Should be a great game.

  • 6.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:24 pm

    @wing_14-2: How quickly you forget that the Lions traveled down to Cape Town a few weeks ago and thrashed this side that is “just too good”. I took my little boy to the game, in full Lions kit, and thanks to Province’s complete capitulation he now loves the game :)

  • 7.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:26 pm

    @bokfan1-5: Dankie, selfde vir jou span. Gaan ‘n taai game wees. Ek staan by my telling van 28-18.

  • 8.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:26 pm

    @katman-4: Hype 1, Lions 0??

  • 9.gunther: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:30 pm

    at least they have a different 9.

    that one last week was seriously toilet.

    I’ve seen coma patients with better passes.

  • 10.phil72: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:32 pm

    @gunther-9:

    Katte will get out bullied upfront and outclassed at the back…. This can only go one way….

  • 11.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:33 pm

    @katman-6: It’s true.

    But it wasn’t quite the same side though now was it?

    But may the better team win on Saturday.

    I’ll say this though:

    If this Lions side with all it’s top players (more or less) does beat the WP side (with most of it’s top players, more or less) then serious questions need to be asked of their Super Rugby performance this year.

    I mean this is basically the Stormers team (yes minus some injuries but we’ve struggled with this the whole year) vs the Lions team from the Super comp. The one ended top and the other ended bottom.

  • 12.gunther: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:43 pm

    @phil72-10:

    it will be interesting.

    I’ll be squeezing into a lions jersey for that game regardless.

  • 13.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:49 pm

    @gunther-12: :Lions vs Bulls final?

    Could happen.

  • 14.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:50 pm

    @gunther-9: Jirre, that was the worst Durban buy since that bunny chow in 89 that saw Wahl Bartman miss three weeks of CC action.

  • 15.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:51 pm

    @stormersboy-11: In the words of the prophet: “moenie worry nie, watch net”.

  • 16.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:53 pm

    @katman-15: ja swaer.

  • 17.Dummy Runner: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:53 pm

    Province will (i hope) be too strong for the Leeutjies this Saturday.then its a final against the Sharks.that one be a tough one.

  • 18.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 13:56 pm

    @katman-15: The most profound words I ever heard was spoken by my caddie at the King David golf club when observing that i was holding back on my swing:

    Don’t worry, Just hit da ball! It’s got no mudda, it’s got no fada, just hit da ball!

    Works for me.

  • 19.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:01 pm

    @stormersboy-18: As long as he’s prepared to help you look for it in the long stuff.

  • 20.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:03 pm

    @katman-19: Which is usually where it ends up.

  • 21.grant10: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:05 pm

    Lions by 5…

  • 22.Mr Black: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:12 pm

    Taute vs De Jongh

    Lets see how that one goes.

  • 23.husky: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:12 pm

    @21 gwantie: yeah right; WP by 15. Jantjies cannot afford to play a good game against his new team or get injured.

  • 24.gunther: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:14 pm

    @stormersboy-13:

    Indeed.

    Grantie will be back on the Zanax.

  • 25.BrumbiesBoy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:14 pm

    @stormersboy-18: Is that why they call you “Startrek?”

    Because when u hit the ball it goes where no ball has ever gone before…

    :-)

    P.S. Go Lions!

  • 26.gunther: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:20 pm

    @BrumbiesBoy-25:

    No they call him Startrek because he has ears like a twitchy Rottweiler and a proclivity for viscose knits.

    @stormersboy-18:

    He sounds like an indigenous David Leadbetter.

    :lol:

  • 27.grant10: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:25 pm

    lions by5

    sharks by plenty

  • 28.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:27 pm

    @gunther-26: :D

    He’s a legend there. Goes by the caddie name of “Bacon and Eggs”

  • 29.gunther: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:30 pm

    @stormersboy-28:

    Caddie name?

    Is that like how you find out your Pornstar name?

    The name of your first pet and last thing you ate for breakfast?

  • 30.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:33 pm

    @BrumbiesBoy-25: I once played a round of golf with a chap by the name of Luke Fairweather. A bit of a notorious character around these parts (may he rest in peace) and he had this saying “the harder you hit it……….the further it goes”…….. :)

    Works for me. I don’t really care in which direction mind you, that’s what caddies are for,

  • 31.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:35 pm

    @gunther-29: There was another caddie there who had us call him “******”.

    I just couldn’t.

    I reserve that for close family.

  • 32.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:35 pm

    m o n k e y.

  • 33.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:36 pm

    @gunther-29: I think in this case you combine the last thing you prepared for a romantic dinner with the body part you’d least like to lose in a car crash.

  • 34.gunther: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:38 pm

    @stormersboy-31:

    Verwoed used to love to play at king David.

    @katman-33:

    :lol:

  • 35.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:39 pm

    @katman-33: hahahaha bacon and eggs.

    Reminds me of an incident that happened to me back when i was at varsity, I’d had a few drinks and collected several lamposts on the way home in my mazda 323.

    Luckily two families driving by stopped and helped, the Smiths and the Balls.

    Thankfully I was pulled out by the Smiths.

  • 36.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:42 pm

    @katman-33: PS I do find that bacon is the most sensual of cured meats……..

  • 37.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:51 pm

    That’s it, I’m abandoning this conversation before you get round to your fondness of salami.

  • 38.gunther: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 14:55 pm

    @stormersboy-36:

    Indeed.

    Just Ruggery has an entire gimpsuit made out of oak smoked streaky.

  • 39.stormersboy: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 15:25 pm

    @katman-37: Seinfeld reference.

    For the true connoisseurs of comedy only ;)

  • 40.bokfan1: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 16:08 pm

    @katman-7: Ek kan maar net hoop jou voorspelling is verkeerd :-)

    Lyk my Taute word meer en meer gebruik as #13. Wat dink jy daarvan? Hy is mos n heelagter of hoe?
    En die Bokke het n heelagter nodig! Ons het baie #13s – en as JPP terug is – nog meer!

  • 41.bokfan1: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 16:11 pm

    @Dummy Runner-17: I hope you are right, although that is only the first hurdle. We all know WP’s recent record 1. In Finals and 2. Against the Sharks!

  • 42.katman: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 16:13 pm

    @bokfan1-40: Lions het ook vir Andries Coetzee, en hy’s ‘n uit-en-uit heelagter. So hulle moet plek vind vir albei in die span. Met Doppies uit en Hollenbach en Mapoe om die beurt beseer het dit baie sin gemaak om Taute daar te speel. Hy herinner my in elk geval aan ‘n jong Jaque Fourie, wat ook op 15 begin het en toe 13 toe geskuif het.

  • 43.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 20:41 pm

    The Lions beat the Chennai Super Kings.

    Mooi manne.

    Baie mooi!

  • 44.I am a stormer: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 21:00 pm

    Very funny interaction here.

    Mooi manne.

    But come Saturday, the gloves are off.

  • 45.LoanShark: Reply to this comment
    16 Oct 2012, 21:07 pm

    @I am a stormer-44:

    Why the gloves on?

  • 46.Rhys7: Reply to this comment
    17 Oct 2012, 08:17 am

    Would have changed the wings.

    Lionel Mapoe & Deon Van Rensburg

  • 47.Rhys7: Reply to this comment
    17 Oct 2012, 08:18 am

    Dropped CJ & Cilliers? Minnie on bench? I think Ackermann has picked next years team only with Jantjes and Taute.

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