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[OomStruisbaai]

Curwin Bosch is a great selection.

[Chilli]

Curwin Bosch is a great selection.

[OomStruisbaai]

Lions: 15 Quan Horn, 14 Stean Pienaar, 13 Wandisile Simelane, 12 Burger Odendaal, 11 Edwill van der Merwe, 10 Jordan Hendrikse, 9 Morne van den Berg, 8 Francke Horn, 7 Ruan Venter, 6 Jaco Kriel (captain), 5 Ruben Schoeman, 4 PJ Steenkamp, 3 Carlu Sadie, 2 Jaco Visagie, 1 Sti Sithole.
Replacements: 16 Pieter Botha, 17 Morgan Naude, 18 Ruan Dreyer, 19 Lunga Ncube, 20 Sibusiso Sangweni, 21 Nico Steyn, 22 Mannie Rass, 23 Tiaan Swanepoel.

Date: Friday, February 25
Venue: RDS Arena, Dublin
Kick-off: 19.35 (21.35 SA time; 19.35 GMT)
Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)
Assistant referees: Peter Martin (Ireland), Stuart Gaffikin (Ireland)
TMO: Colin Stanley (Ireland)

[OomStruisbaai]

Curwin Bosch is a great selection.

NH winter conditions will fit his kicking game.

[assfly]

That's a good looking Sharks side. Some good balance.

I'll give credit to Bosch. He's forced his way into the main team on the back of some good performances.

[PornDog]

Lions win will be awesome.

It's as good a chance as they'll get - Leinster must be missing their top 20 or so players through call ups and injury.

[fishfoodie]

Lions win will be awesome.

It's as good a chance as they'll get - Leinster must be missing their top 20 or so players through call ups and injury.

Yeah, the side they send out will probably have less than 500 caps between them

[OomStruisbaai]

Lions: 15 Quan Horn, 14 Stean Pienaar, 13 Wandisile Simelane, 12 Burger Odendaal, 11 Edwill van der Merwe, 10 Jordan Hendrikse, 9 Morne van den Berg, 8 Francke Horn, 7 Ruan Venter, 6 Jaco Kriel (captain), 5 Ruben Schoeman, 4 PJ Steenkamp, 3 Carlu Sadie, 2 Jaco Visagie, 1 Sti Sithole.
Replacements: 16 Pieter Botha, 17 Morgan Naude, 18 Ruan Dreyer, 19 Lunga Ncube, 20 Sibusiso Sangweni, 21 Nico Steyn, 22 Mannie Rass, 23 Tiaan Swanepoel.

Date: Friday, February 25
Venue: RDS Arena, Dublin
Kick-off: 19.35 (21.35 SA time; 19.35 GMT)
Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)
Assistant referees: Peter Martin (Ireland), Stuart Gaffikin (Ireland)
TMO: Colin Stanley (Ireland)

Leinster: 15 Max O’Reilly, 14 Tommy O’Brien, 13 Jamie Osborne, 12 Harry Byrne, 11 Dave Kearney, 10 Ross Byrne, 9 Nick McCarthy, 8 Rhys Ruddock (captain), Dan Leavy, 6 Josh Murphy, 5 Joe McCarthy, 4 Devin Toner, 3 Michael Ala’alatoa, 2 James Tracy, 1 Ed Byrne.
Replacements: 16 Seán Cronin, 17 Peter Dooley, 18 Thomas Clarkson, 19 Jack Dunne, 20 Max Deegan, 21 Luke McGrath, 22 Adam Byrne, 23 Scott Penny.

[OomStruisbaai]

Leinster looks weak. (sorry my mistake)

[OomStruisbaai]

Gelant out

Stormers: 15 Damian Willemse, 14 Sergeal Petersen, 13 Ruhan Nel, 12 Dan du Plessis, 11 Seabelo Senatla, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Herschel Jantjies, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Ernst van Rhyn, 6 Deon Fourie, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Adre Smith, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Scarra Ntubeni, 1 Steven Kitshoff (c).
Subs: 16 Andre-Hugo Venter, 17 Ali Vermaak, 18 Neethling Fouche, 19 David Meihuizen, 20 Hacjivah Dayimani, 21 Junior Pokomela, 22 Paul de Wet, 23 Angelo Davids.

[OomStruisbaai]

Good pack & bench. Only worry is Libbok in 10. Can he adobt to a kicking game in kak weather?

[PornDog]

Lions win will be awesome.

It's as good a chance as they'll get - Leinster must be missing their top 20 or so players through call ups and injury.

Yeah, the side they send out will probably have less than 500 caps between them

Well Toner and Cronin on their own almost have that

Or did you mean Irish caps? There'd be less than 200 of them, again with Toner and Cronin accounting for about 75% of them.

[OomStruisbaai]

Gelant out

Stormers: 15 Damian Willemse, 14 Sergeal Petersen, 13 Ruhan Nel, 12 Dan du Plessis, 11 Seabelo Senatla, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Herschel Jantjies, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Ernst van Rhyn, 6 Deon Fourie, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Adre Smith, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Scarra Ntubeni, 1 Steven Kitshoff (c).
Subs: 16 Andre-Hugo Venter, 17 Ali Vermaak, 18 Neethling Fouche, 19 David Meihuizen, 20 Hacjivah Dayimani, 21 Junior Pokomela, 22 Paul de Wet, 23 Angelo Davids.

[Chilli]

Gelant out

Stormers: 15 Damian Willemse, 14 Sergeal Petersen, 13 Ruhan Nel, 12 Dan du Plessis, 11 Seabelo Senatla, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Herschel Jantjies, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Ernst van Rhyn, 6 Deon Fourie, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Adre Smith, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Scarra Ntubeni, 1 Steven Kitshoff (c).
Subs: 16 Andre-Hugo Venter, 17 Ali Vermaak, 18 Neethling Fouche, 19 David Meihuizen, 20 Hacjivah Dayimani, 21 Junior Pokomela, 22 Paul de Wet, 23 Angelo Davids.

This is a good team Oom.

No Gelant...........................................

[Sards]

Gelant out

Stormers: 15 Damian Willemse, 14 Sergeal Petersen, 13 Ruhan Nel, 12 Dan du Plessis, 11 Seabelo Senatla, 10 Manie Libbok, 9 Herschel Jantjies, 8 Evan Roos, 7 Ernst van Rhyn, 6 Deon Fourie, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Adre Smith, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Scarra Ntubeni, 1 Steven Kitshoff (c).
Subs: 16 Andre-Hugo Venter, 17 Ali Vermaak, 18 Neethling Fouche, 19 David Meihuizen, 20 Hacjivah Dayimani, 21 Junior Pokomela, 22 Paul de Wet, 23 Angelo Davids.

This is a good team Oom.

No Gelant...........................................

He is the Stormers

[OomStruisbaai]

Bulls better get their kak together.

[OomStruisbaai]

Marcel Coetzee, overrated doos

[Chilli]

Fuck.
The Bulls are both dumb and shit.

[Sards]

I am quite impressed by the way the Bulls protect the ball

[Chilli]

That's a bit better

[Chilli]

I am quite impressed by the way the Bulls protect the ball

Not much else to be impressed by.

[Sards]

That's a bit better

I think Zebra have dodged a few bullets and the score flatters them. But we have the second half......and the Bulls

[Sards]

I am quite impressed by the way the Bulls protect the ball

Not much else to be impressed by.

Putting pressure on the scrum....tick
Breaking the line......tick
Defense......tick

In the lead......tick

[Sards]

Bulls miss Gelant

[Sards]

The bonus point is not beyond reality

[OomStruisbaai]

Bulls get their act together. Surely a 5 pointer

[OomStruisbaai]

Bulls miss Gelant

he played 4 years ago for the Bulls

[OomStruisbaai]

How can Zebra knock that on?

[OomStruisbaai]

Zebre is much kakker then the Cheetahs.

[Sards]

Bulls had a good training run and an opportunity to get some points

[bok_viking]

The Bulls need to sort out their first half crap starts. They have done it with almost every game so far this season, giving the opposition a good head start by half time and then having to try and claw it back. Falling just short on quite a few occasions. Not sure why they are so bad in the first half of games. Luckily for the bulls. Zebre could not take advantage of this in the way just about every other team did this season. Glad for the 5 points though but very frustrated with that first half again.

[OomStruisbaai]

Lions look great. Stand up physically. Hope they keep it up

[‘tsek]

Fantastic effort for the all but written of Lions, I see glimpses of what has been missing all season, a bit of heart.

Would probably be too much to ask of them to keep it up for a full 80 but I’ll take it!

[OomStruisbaai]

Leinster lucky to lead 7-6. Hendricks two missed penalties at the start but he make a big difference otherwise. Leinster kicking game is shite.

[bok_viking]

Leinster lucky to lead 7-6. Hendricks two missed penalties at the start but he make a big difference otherwise. Leinster kicking game is shite.

Yeah very surprised with how the lions team is holding up so far. They butchered a try as well, if the scrumhalf just passed to his left instead of trying to go for glory himself it looked like it would have been a try with the open space there was in front of the left player. You can also see a lot of the inexperience within that team, often taking the wrong options. Chances are they most likely will start running out of gas in the 2nd half. Im enjoying their effort so far though.

[fishfoodie]

Leinster must have gotten the hairdryer treatment at HT; come out & get two tries in 10 minutes.

[OomStruisbaai]

Dam wall have broken.

[fishfoodie]

What a cover tackle by TOB that's a brilliant try 99 out of 100 times

[OomStruisbaai]

One of the Lions better performances.

[fishfoodie]

One of the Lions better performances.

Except for that brief patch, they were always in the game. They got let down by their handling, & just not capitalizing on their chances.

It's all part of the experience of learning; & they'll be better players, & wiser coaches next season.