Lions claw committed Kings

Lions claw committed Kings

9 Feb 2013

The Lions beat the Kings 41-31 in front of 18 000 fans at Ellis Park.

With the Kings having replaced the Lions in Super Rugby, this was always going to be more than just another pre-season hitout.

The Lions played like they had a point to prove and led 22-7 at the break thanks to tries from lock Hendrik Roodt, flanker JJ Breet and tighthead prop Ruan Dreyer, while lock Rynier Bernado went over for the Kings.

Roodt grabbed his second five minutes after the break, before the Kings responded through scrumhalf Johan Herbst.

Replacement flank Warwick Tecklenburg’s try made it 34-14 with 20 minutes to go, but Herbst and former Blues centre Hadleigh Parkes hit back for the visitors.

George Whitehead then slotted a penalty with six minutes to go to reduce the deficit to three, but the Lions put the result beyond doubt when they won a 5m lineout and Tecklenburg went over from a maul that the Kings chose not to contest.


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  • 1.nama1: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:17 pm

    King Dragons or Dragon Kings.

    Which is it?

    Good performance by them. Their forwards will get hammered in the S15.

  • 2.RL: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:17 pm

    Lions C team moers the drama queens. That’s your headline Keo.

    Lions A team would have put 100 past them and not take the take their paws off their stinking throats with 15min to play.

  • 3.RL: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:23 pm

    Is one of their foreign players a prop – they need to play him cause they will be turbo reversing all season. However if he did play today then they are farked scrum time. Not that I would mind watching S&M cruelty everyweek.

  • 4.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:27 pm

    Kings had a big weight advantage in the pack.

    what happened in the scums, guys?

  • 5.nama1: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:29 pm

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-4:
    Lions moered the Kings in the scrums.

  • 6.catchlightuk.com: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:29 pm

    I was impressed by the Kings. They rested some of their better players and still pushed the Lions close. Jonker seemed to favour the Lions and the Kings missed two easy kicks. With 5 minutes to go, the Kings were down by 3 points – those 2 missed kicks haunting them.

    They seemed very good in open play with their loose forwards and backline players finding constant gaps. I was impressed by the scrummy and by Mamajelu (probably misspelled). The style of the Kings play is more like an Oz team, with a lot more running and creative flare, rather than the pick, drive and kick style of some of the other South African teams.

    Their glaring weakness is their pack. They were dominated up front by the Lions, with 4 of the Lions tries coming from forward drives. They need a high quality prop and lock.

  • 7.Mr Black: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:32 pm

    Nice match. Enjoyed it. Both teams played ok.

  • 8.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:33 pm

    @nama1-5:
    i know, my question was to the Kings boytjies
    maybe they have answers?
    technique is seriously kaka in many aspects
    what is the Kiwi doing all day?

  • 9.catchlightuk.com: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:36 pm

    From what they showed today, I think top teams like the Sharks/Crusaders will get an easy 5 points, but the Kings may push weaker teams close. Similar to the Lions then, but hopefully on an upwards curve.

  • 10.Mr Black: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:38 pm

    @catchlightuk.com-9:

    Agree, lots of work ahead.

    As long as they continue to improve, thats all they need to do for now.

  • 11.Peter Mkata: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:42 pm

    @catchlightuk.com-6:

    Mamojela – he will probably play in the vodacom team. Very promising talent though.

    Only 2-4 first choice players on the field today. You will see their probable starting team on Wednesday against Griquas.

  • 12.Angostura: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:44 pm

    @catchlightuk.com-6: I agree
    but at no stage the Kings had anywhere near their best pack of forwards on the field … I think we’ll see something approaching their best XV vs the Cheetahs on Wednesday, fitness permitting … if so, that should be a better guage of their Super XV prospects

    Well done the Kings

    And well done & congratulations to the Lions (Roodt had a huge game)

    I enjoyed the contest

  • 13.the curse: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:47 pm

    wow, 18000 at Ellis park? been a long time since theyve had a crowd of that magnitude there to watch the Lions play..

    must have been all Kings fans :D

  • 14.Peter Mkata: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:48 pm

    @catchlightuk.com-9:

    I think we will see a better picture on Wednesday against Griquas. Solly and the New Zealand coach was not even in that game. Kempson and Maidza,the Vodacom team coaches, were there.

  • 15.Angostura: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:49 pm

    @the curse-13: no, just the attraction of & excitement about the Kings :-)

  • 16.Peter Mkata: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:50 pm

    @Angostura-12:

    Griquas you mean.

  • 17.the curse: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:50 pm

    @Angostura-15: I wish them well.

  • 18.Angostura: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:51 pm

    @Peter Mkata-14: howzit Peter, the Kings playing Griquas on Wed? – I thought it was the Cheetahs?

  • 19.Angostura: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:51 pm

    @Peter Mkata-16: Oh, OK, thx

  • 20.RL: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:54 pm

    @the curse-13: Hadleigh Parkes should have stayed with the Blues – harlot queens will have him playing in the Vodacom cup and not superrugby.

  • 21.Peter Mkata: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:54 pm

    @the curse-13:

    Check the crowd in PE on Wednesday. The excitement and the prospect of having super rugby in your door step is huge there.

  • 22.the curse: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:56 pm

    @RL-20: Hadleigh Parkes isnt good enough for super rugby, he was woeful for us last year..

    @Peter Mkata-21: kia ora Peter.. will do, good to see there is interest for the region, ignore the doomsayers and get behind your team..

    The Lions may still have been in Super rugby if their fans did this :D

  • 23.Peter Mkata: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:57 pm

    @Angostura-18:

    Fine thanks man.
    I have spoken to family in PE just now. The excitement is huge.

    Everyone was worried that the Kings will not be competitive today. Nerves I guess.

  • 24.ryecatcher: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:57 pm

    @nama1-1: There is an episode in Fawlty
    Towers where John Cleese tries to justify Manuel,s
    stupidity,by sayingto a guest” He.s Spanish you know”Goodnight all

  • 25.Angostura: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 16:58 pm

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-8: True, bakkies, but that was basically their 2nd team, & like the White Buffalo, they improved as time wore on :-)

    & discipline, of course (which can be rectified) – two yellow cards to nil – very difficult to win from there …

  • 26.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:00 pm

    @RL-2:
    @ RL-167 : ” A Lions C team”

    a team filled with Bulls REJECTS – cronje,
    tecklenburg, marnitz boshoff – a bunch of
    super rugby experienced players – minnie,
    coetzee, ross cronje, volminck, kritzinger…
    hehehe c-team indeed :D

  • 27.Peter Mkata: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:01 pm

    @the curse-22:

    We know those doomsayers, we grew up with them (maybe apart in SA context) and do not bother me much. They are bitter and there is not much you can do to help them.

  • 28.Peter Mkata: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:03 pm

    @Transformation-26:

    LOL, some believing their own lies. I know you will always show them up.

  • 29.catchlightuk.com: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:04 pm

    I knew they were missing some of their first choice players, but had no idea the Kings were fielding their 2nd team. If that is the case, they might be ruing the decision. They could have easily won today.

  • 30.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:04 pm

    @Peter Mkata-23: sizakube si pha ngamandl’ egeza mhlekazi!!! :-)

    amatikiti onyaka asezandleni! :D

  • 31.BrumbiesBoy: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:07 pm

    As much as you propagandists blow your trumpets and sing the Kinks’ praises they remain a second division team not even worthy of Currie Cup proper status and nothing is going to change that in the forseeable future.

  • 32.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:07 pm

    @the curse-22: ” Hadleigh Parkes isnt good enough
    for super rugby,”

    funny thing is JK was crying for him when nonu came back from RC only to say he wants to switch to Landers…

  • 33.catchlightuk.com: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:07 pm

    Peter, I live in London, but I grew up in East London. I am going to follow these Kings closely.

  • 34.RL: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:07 pm

    @Transformation-26: nc nc nc duplictious Transformer – only Minnie is an experienced superrugby player from that list. The rest support players and bench options.

  • 35.Dusky: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:07 pm

    O jirre Kings….41 points scored by the Lions minus their best players. Dominated up front by the Lions !? You boys are in trouble deep !

  • 36.catchlightuk.com: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:08 pm

    BrumbiesBoy – did you watch the game? You would understand the optimism if you did.

  • 37.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:09 pm

    @Angostura-25:
    fair enough, but they’ve got major work to do if they are even remotely serious about playing super rugby.
    we’ve all seen their 1st team play already and on those occasions the scorelines were atrocious.

    am just being a realistic about this, but good luck to them all the same.

  • 38.Mr Black: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:09 pm

    @catchlightuk.com-29:

    Maybe some of these players are better than the preceived 1st team. Who knows.

  • 39.RL: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:09 pm

    @BrumbiesBoy-31: we will see how their A team goes against the Griquas, who will be minus their Cheetah exports – Griquas by plenty!

  • 40.Angostura: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:10 pm

    @catchlightuk.com-29: nope, you cannot play your 1st choice team today & again on Wednesday & yet again at the commencement of their Super XV in two weeks’ time – that’s a virtual guarantee of injuries to your best players … (& they have some injury concerns already (today they played a retreated flank at hooker) – depth not comparable to those of the top SA franchises)

  • 41.Peter Mkata: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:11 pm

    @Transformation-30:

    Nam ndizabe ndikhona kunye noonyana xa kudlalwa ne – Force.

  • 42.RL: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:12 pm

    @catchlightuk.com-33: don’t you support Border? Why are so excited about some team from PE?

  • 43.Angostura: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:13 pm

    @i_love_u_bakkiesbotha-37: When did “we all” see their 1st team play, bakkies?

  • 44.BrumbiesBoy: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:13 pm

    @catchlightuk.com-36: No, I didn’t… I have already stated on this block that I will boycott Eastern Cape rugby until SARU has sorted this mess out to the benefit of all concerned.

    That means that I will not watch or attend any of their games but reserve the right to watch when my team collects their five points from this B-section Currie Cup team.

  • 45.Peter Mkata: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:14 pm

    @catchlightuk.com-33:

    I was in East London, Beacon Bay, over the the December holidays. It is a small world.

  • 46.the curse: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:14 pm

    @Transformation-32: I dont rate the bloke Trans, just my opinion..

  • 47.Peter Mkata: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:18 pm

    @Angostura-43:

    Am asking the same question.

  • 48.RL: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:21 pm

    @Angostura-43: when they selected 15 white players in a do or die promotion relegation match against the Cheetahs. Remember?

  • 49.i_love_u_bakkiesbotha: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:21 pm

    @Angostura-43:
    against the Cheetahs in the promo/releg matches.

  • 50.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    9 Feb 2013, 17:25 pm

    @RL-34: really? :-)

    Andries Coetzee – the same player that was being plugged for Bok honours is a “support player”? lol

    15 Marnitz Boshoff, 14 Andries Coetzee, 13
    Stokkies Hanekom, 12 Alwyn Hollenbach, 11
    Anthony Volmink, 10 Lionel Cronje, 9 Ross
    Cronje, 8 Derick Minnie, 7 JJ Breet, 6 Jaco
    Kriel, 5 Franco Mostert, 4 Hendrik Roodt, 3
    Ruan Dreyer, 2 Francois du Toit, 1 JC Janse
    van Rensburg (captain)
    Substitutes: 16 Robbie Coetzee, 17 Jacques
    van Rooyen, 18 Gavin Annandale, 19
    Warwick Tecklenberg, 20 Whestley
    Moolman, 21 Deon Helberg, 22 Ruhan Nel,
    23 Dylan des Fountain

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