A mouthwatering clash takes place in Bloemfontein.
Will the Cheetahs show that they are better than their narrow victory over Griquas would suggest?
Or will the Lions bounce back in styles after being humiliated by the Bulls?
Kick-off in the Rose City is at 15h00.
Cheetahs: 15 Bevin Fortuin, 14 Eddie Fredericks, 13 JW Jonker, 12 Meyer Bosman, 11 Jongi Nokwe, 10 Chris Rossouw, 9 Neil Powell, 8 Schalk van der Merwe, 7 Hendro Scholtz (c), 6 Heinrich Brüssow, 5 Barend Pieterse, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Kobus Calldo, 2 Adriaan Strauss, 1 Wian du Preez.
Replacements: 16 Jaco du Toit, 17 Phillip Lemmer, 18 David de Villiers, 19 Kabamba Floors, 20 Jandré Blom, 20 Hendrik Meyer, 21 Fabian Juries.
Lions: 15 Earl Rose, 14 Louis Ludik, 13 Jaco Pretorius, 12 Walter Venter, 11 Rayno Benjamin, 10 Jaco van Schalkwyk, 9 Jano Vermaak, 8 Willem Alberts, 7 Franco van der Merwe, 6 Cobus Grobbelaar, 5 Gerhard Mostert, 4 Dewald Senekal, 3 JC Janse van Rensburg,2 Willie Wepener, 1 Heinke van der Merwe
Replacements: 16 Ethienne Reynecke, 17 Gert Muller, 18 Anton van Zyl, 19 Wilhelm Koch, 20 Chris Jonck, 21 Jannie Boshoff, 22 Dusty Noble,
Referee: Christie du Preez
Touch judges: Gareth Lloyd-Jones, Lourens van der Merwe
Television match official: Michael Cupido
Assessor: Arrie Schoonwinkel
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3-3 5min
6-3 Lions
10-6 Cheetahs.
Klein chips ghosts through the gap like a warm mes deur botter.
Plenty collapsing scrums.
Pen Lions.
Rose kicking for goal.
10-9
Charge down. Scrum Lions 5m from their line.
vd Merwe seems to have the upper hand at scrum time.
Pen Cheetahs…
Mini chips going for goal.
He slots it.
13-9
Balls up at restart.
Penalty Lions..
Rose lands it.
13-12
Lions only 3 in line out against 6/7 Cheetahs on their throw and then lose it.
Another penalty at scrum time, this time against vd Merwe.
Lots of penalties at ruck/maul time. 👿
go Lions
Fire engine just drove past my house.
Nokwe scores.
No wait TMO to check.
@ra-cheltjie de’ be-er (Comment 21) : killing the Currie Cup with these f*cked-up laws
Maybe forward pass.
@robdylan (Comment 26) : Plenty of penalties for going off their feet etc. Bit over zealous most of the time if you ask me.
After seven thousand replays the TMO rules forward pass.
Earl Roses nails bite size chips. 😆
Line out sounds like an auction.
Penalty states.
Banzai chips gets another shot at goal.
..and nails it.
16-12
Half time
Tiny chips 16 – 12 Lions.
Brent Russel not happy with TMO’s new powers.
But he was late to the studio, stuck in London traffic, so probably not in a good mood.
Knck on from restart. Scrum states.
Pick & drive from Cheetahs & then give away penalty 7m from try line.
Now penalty States. Lions holding on. 🙄
Fortuin seems to have the acceleration and pace of an overweight prop.
No points in second half so far.
Charge down, but ball goes dead. Unlucky Lions.
Penalty Lions…..
Rose slots it.
16-15
Plenty of kicking.
Penalty Cheetahs…..
Closer than I’d have thought
Pocket size chips going for goal.
…and he gets it.
19-16
19-15 I mean. 😳
7’s legend Fabian Juries coming on.
@robdylan (Comment 50) : Not the best quality unfortunately, but watchable none the less.
Rossouw doing better than expected
@robdylan (Comment 57) : Not bad at all, kicking really well. Think he only missed one so far.
20min to go.
He’s scored all the cheetahs points. I can’t say I remember him as much of a kicking flyhalf. Must’ve learned something in France anyway
I want the free kicks back. These penalties are killing the game
@robdylan (Comment 61) : All these penalties seem to result in very stop start matches.
Penalty Lions…….
Kickable.
Rose slots it. Good kick.
19-18
Another penalty…….
Lilliputian chips going for goal.
But alas he misses.
So far Rose scored all the Lions points and petite chips scored all the points for Cheetahs.
5min to go.
Vasbyt Cheetahs.
Nothing against Lions but Cheetahs are my superbru pick.
Cheetahs on attack. 😎
Cheetahs get penalty virually right in front.
Wee chips steps up for the kick at goal.
And off course he slots it.
Floors on the field.
22-18 2min to go.
Penalty Lions..,,,
Going for line out.
Lions attacking. 👿
That’s it. Cheetahs win. 😀
Final Score
22-18
Only Flashman with a perfect prediction.
Cheetahs defended well. Not a single try conceded.
Curtain raiser over. Now for the main event. 😈
Cheetahs 2nd. Lions bottom
Sterling job there Racheltjie. 😎
@KSA Shark © (Comment 89) : You big flirt.
😉
@ra-cheltjie de’ be-er (Comment 90) :
I heard some intersting news yesterday.
I went down to Kings park to see if i could move my season tickets.
The guy behind the counter informed me that i could but then would not qualify to buy my Lions tickets for next years test. 🙁
Apparantly they have “locked” sales on 1 may of this year and all existing season ticket holders will be entitled to buy there tickets for the Lions test but anyone who buys tickets now or new ones next season will not be entitled to their tickets becasue they will all be sold through computicket.
The “available” seat numbers have already been “issued” to computicket for them to prepare the sales packages.
Rachel is up in 3rd spot now
@KSA Shark © (Comment 89) : It’s just my philanthropic side coming to the fore.
@robdylan (Comment 93) :
You are gonna hit 10k before me you bastardo. 😳
@KSA Shark © (Comment 89) : Mostly ‘commentating’ to myself, but get a strange sense of satisfaction from it. Much like ironing. 🙄
@KSA Shark © (Comment 95) : Doubt it
@ra-cheltjie de’ be-er (Comment 96) :
I have been there a few times. 😉
Anyway, I am on dial up, it is almost the pumpkin hour and it is COLD here…………..
@robdylan (Comment 97) :
Dude i am gonna post like 50 comments a week (if that) for the next 4 weeks. 🙁
Have a good evening gents. Amazon delivered 4 books today so I’m off for a spot of reading.
Seem Coke have bought the naming right for Ellis Park.
45 million rond apparently.
@ra-cheltjie de’ be-er (Comment 101) : Do the Lions have anything left to sell? Still, bodes well for them. They can pay top dollar and buy a good team, just like back in the 90s