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Elton Jantjies capped of an impressive 2010 with a call-up to the Springbok squad, so why does the 2011 version seem so out of his depth? [...]
Posts tagged with: Carlos Spencer
Poles apart
Lions feast on Sharks leftovers
The list of players deemed “not quite good enough” to play in Durban, but just fine to run out in Lions colours, has grown a bit longer. Various sources report today that Andre Pretorius will again play for the Lions in 2011. [...]
GLRU confirms Mitchell & Spencer for the Currie Cup
The Golden Lions Rugby Union has recruited Emirates Western Force Head Coach John Mitchell as a member of its 2010 Xerox Lions Absa Currie Cup coaching team. [...]
Some Super 14 Round 9 musings…
Lions Boss heading out to NZ.
Lions boss Kevin de Klerk will fly to New Zealand next week in the hope that he can help coach Dick Muir salvage a sinking ship, [...]
Muir makes EIGHT changes
Auto and General Lions coach Dick Muir has made no less than eight changes to his squad to face the Brumbies in their Vodacom Super 14 match in Canberra on Friday. [...]
Muir is full of surprises
Dick Muir has named his team to take on the Stormers this weekend and to say that the new Lions boss has made some surprising selection would be somewhat of an understatement. [...]
Spencer the pick of the pride
The Lions finished their final Super 14 warm-up match against the Pumas in a wet Witbank with a lacklustre performance in the night’s final game, narrowly winning 24-17. In the early game the Lions Black team won 38-30 against the Leopards. [...]
Muir sees this as a new dawn
There have been too many false dawns for this one to be above suspicion. [...]
Looks like captain staying in the cauldron
There have been rumours doing the rounds that John Smit may join the Lions so as to ensure both him and Bismarck du Plessis get game time at hooker.
But recent comments from Lions CEO Manie Reynecke have suggested otherwise. [...]
Breaking the bank for a has-been
The Lions have done it again, folks, in offering a South African record contract to an over-the-hill former great. An obsession with experience would appear to have blinded the Lions’ management to the fact that Carlos Spencer simply isn’t worth a record contract these days. [...]
Carlos Spencer splits from Saints
Northampton have confirmed the departure of their star fly-half Carlos Spencer from Franklin’s Gardens. [...]
Northampton boss says Spencer staying
Carlos Spencer is probably breathing a sigh of relief today after Jim Mallinder, his director of rugby at Northampton, rubbished reports that the former All Black first five was on the way out to make way for Danny Cipriani. [...]
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