Loffie’s Pride moves on to Kimberley, renowned graveyard for big-name teams in the Currie Cup.
Will the men in peacock blue take a second successive big 5 scalp?
Or will their be more of the same from the Lions team that thrashed Boland last week?
Kick-off is at 15h00.
Griquas: 15 Riaan Viljoen, 14 Eagon Seconds, 13 Lafras Uys, 12 Herkie Kruger (captain), 11 Gavin Passens, 10 Conrad Barnard, 9 Sarel Pretorius, 8 Heinrich Stride, 7 Stephan Gerber, 6 Gareth Krause, 5 Jacques Lombaard, 4 Wayne van Heerden, 3 Ruaan du Preez, 2 James van der Walt, 1 Albertus Buckle.
Replacements: 16 Bees van Dyk, 17 Steph Roberts, 18 Cilliers Coetzer, 19 Rohan Kitshoff, 20 Tobie Botes, 21 Jaco Bekker/Bjorn Basson, 22 MJ Mentz.
Lions: 15 Earl Rose, 14 Jaco Pretorius, 13 Jaque Fourie, 12 Doppies la Grange, 11 Louis Ludik, 10 Louis Strydom, 9 Jano Vermaak, 8 Willem Alberts, 7 Franco van der Merwe, 6 Cobus Grobbelaar (captain), 5 Gerhard Mostert, 4 Dewald Senekal, 3 Lawrence Sephaka, 2 Willie Wepener, 1 Heinke van der Merwe.
Replacements: 16 Derek Harwood, 17 JC Janse van Rensburg, 18 Alten Hulme, 19 Justin Wheeler, 20 Chris Jonck, 21 Jaco van Schalkwyk, 22 Tshepo Kokoali.
Referee: Christie du Preez
Touch judges: Lourens van der Merwe, Marc van Zyl
TMO: Johann Meuwesen
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HT Lions 24, Griquas 5
Ludik 2 tries and Wepener 1
Man I was expecting a closer tussle than this in Kimberley.
Obviously the Lions are not WP 😉
last year we beat them 28-0 in kimberley…
Or the Sharks for that matter 😳 😆
I only picked the lions by 6 on SB 😳
You have somebody in Kimberley sending you updates, Walter?
I’ve got a guy there that i will phone in a few minutes for the final score
@walter van transvaal.co.za (Comment 7) :
Would be great if you gave us the tries for and against as well so we can get the log updated ASAP 😉
Sounds like the 2nd half was a cracker…Final score 36-32 for the Lions
So the Lions gets 5 points from the game but sounds like they struggled in the 2nd half
Thanks Walter
Any idea on the tries?
I get my margin point 😎
So with that win the lions move into 2nd spot on the Log.
NOT where I would have expected them to be. Mossie makes the difference?
5 points for the lions and 2 for Griquas
27 – 12 for Griquas in the 2nd half, sounds like we got a lucky escape
@walter van transvaal.co.za (Comment 13) :
Our log is automated 🙂 I need to enter the amount of tries for each team and it then updates the points and positions all by itself. Can’t manually manipulate it 😳
6 tries to Griquas and 5 to the Lions according to SaRugby.net
cool thanks
http://www.sarugby.net/includes/stats.asp?id=15718
Log Updated
Lions go 2nd
Griquas go 7th
Lovely..its a win and we’ll take it..Are the Lions finally finding their roar!
Griquas are no easy beats thats for sure.
Well done LIONS for scoring 5 points….
Did not win by much but still picked up 5 points…
1st team to do so in Kimberly this year if not mistaken….
I watched the game when it was shown at 20:00…it was a close affair, we killed them in the 1st half, but then in the last 20 minutes we missed a lot of tackles and nearly handed them the match, it was 24-5 at halftime, and then 29-27 at one stage late in the 2nd half…it could have been 29-29 but they didn’t seem to have a kicker on the field..Conrad Barnard was replaced early on, and they only kicked 1 conversion from 6 tries…