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Posted: **Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:07 pm**

Curwin Bosch is a great selection.

Posted: **Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:21 pm**

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:07 pm Curwin Bosch is a great selection.

Posted: **Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:45 pm**

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)

Posted: **Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:48 pm**

Chilli wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:21 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:07 pm Curwin Bosch is a great selection.

NH winter conditions will fit his kicking game.

Posted: **Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:40 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Feb 24, 2022 2:45 pm**

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 7:13 am 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.

Posted: **Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:11 pm**

PornDog wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 2:45 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 7:13 am 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

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 5:30 am**

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 12:45 pm 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.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 5:31 am**

Leinster looks weak.

(sorry my mistake)

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:56 am**

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.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:08 am**

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

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:58 am**

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:11 pm
PornDog wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 2:45 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 7:13 am 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.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 11:57 am**

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:56 am 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.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:17 pm**

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:56 am 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...........................................

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 2:17 pm**

Chilli wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:17 pm
OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:56 am 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

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 5:53 pm**

Bulls better get their kak together.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:02 pm**

Marcel Coetzee, overrated doos

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:05 pm**

Fuck.
The Bulls are both dumb and shit.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:15 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:20 pm**

That's a bit better

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:21 pm**

Sards wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:15 pm I am quite impressed by the way the Bulls protect the ball

Not much else to be impressed by.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:22 pm**

Chilli wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:20 pm 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

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:24 pm**

Chilli wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:21 pm
Sards wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:15 pm 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

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:35 pm**

Bulls miss Gelant

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:46 pm**

The bonus point is not beyond reality

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:47 pm**

Bulls get their act together. Surely a 5 pointer

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:48 pm**

Sards wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:35 pm Bulls miss Gelant

he played 4 years ago for the Bulls

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:51 pm**

How can Zebra knock that on?

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 7:02 pm**

Zebre is much kakker then the Cheetahs.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 7:09 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 7:34 pm**

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.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:18 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:27 pm**

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!

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:31 pm**

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.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:37 pm**

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:31 pm 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.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:49 pm**

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

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:57 pm**

Dam wall have broken.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:01 pm**

What a cover tackle by TOB

that's a brilliant try 99 out of 100 times

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:52 pm**

One of the Lions better performances.

Posted: **Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:55 pm**

OomStruisbaai wrote: ↑Fri Feb 25, 2022 9:52 pm 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.

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