The Lions are in Brisbane for their 3rd match on tour.
The Lions have been dealt a cruel blow losing two captains in two weeks. The absence on Cobus Grobbelaar and Jaque Fourie will be huge. The Lions have been showing promise all season, but the absence of those two will mean that, that promise will probably not be fulfilled this weekend.
Can the Lions eventually fulfill the promise they have shown?
Will the Reds manage to move out of 13th on the log?
Venue: Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Kick-off: 17:35 Local Time, 09:35 SA Time
Referee: Keith Brown (New Zealand)
ARs: Paul Marks (Australia), Simon Moore (Australia)
TMO: Geoff Acton (Australia)
Reds:
15 Mark McLinden, 14 Peter Hynes, 13 Digby Ioane, 12 Berrick Barnes, 11 Brando Va’aulu, 10 Quade Cooper, 9 Will Genia, 8 Ezra Taylor, 7 Daniel Braid, 6 Hugh McMeniman, 5 James Horwill (captain), 4 Adam Byrnes, 3 Laurie Weeks, 2 Sean Hardman, 1 Greg Holmes.
Replacements:
16 Saia Faingaa, 17 Jack Kennedy, 18 Leroy Houston, 19 Scott Higginbotham, 20 Ben Lucas, 21 Charlie Fetoai, 22 Luke Morahan.
Lions:
15 Earl Rose, 14 Jannie Boshoff, 13 Deon van Rensburg, 12 Doppies le Grange, 11 Henno Mentz, 10 André Pretorius, 9 Jano Vermaak, 8 Willem Alberts, 7 Ernst Joubert (captain), 6 Todd Clever, 5 Anton van Zyl, 4 Jannes Labuschagne, 3 Lawrence Sephaka, 2 Willie Wepener, 1 Heinke van der Merwe.
Replacements:
16 Hans van Dyk, 17 JC Janse van Rensburg, 18 Franco van der Merwe, 19 Robert Kruger, 20 Gerhard Mostert, 21 Chris Jonck, 22 Shandre Frolic.
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Worth a try, Rahul Plett and Bullies Have gone with the Lions on LMS. 😯
I picked them on SB but am not brave enough for an LMS pick. 😉 Well I’m not alive in LMS so i couldn’t if I wanted to. 🙁
11 picks for the Reds on LMS. (wouldn’t another upset like last week just be dandy?) 😆
I have to be off. Later.
10 zip to the Lions after 30 mins
@KSA Shark © (Comment 1) : fortune favours the brave!!!! I hope 😕
@robdylan (Comment 3) : go lions!!!!
What’s up, peeps?
H/T is 10-17 😀 I wasn’t brave enough to choose Lions for LMS…
@Lyndy_in_Mtl (Comment 6) : Hey Lyndy… Just us here today 🙁
I’m just reading live updates so can’t see for myself, but app. Heinke has just been stretchered from the field…
43 min
Yeah, I don’t even like the Lions or the Reds but I started listening to my iTunes and now I am marathoning my playlists. I suppose rugby is rugby.
Barnes slots the penalty (don’t know what it was for…) 13-17
Rose finds a gap, passes to Pretorius who finds Mentz in space. Pretorius slots the conversion.
13-24 after 48 min.
24-13 for the Lions.
We could have done with Mentz in JP’s absence… one of the more powerful finishers in this years S14 despite being in such a losing team…
Reds get a penalty but it is overturned by the ref for back-chat.
@Rahul (Comment 8) : Well I am here now so the party can start. 😉
@bryce_in_oz (Comment 14) :
And he makes a real boo-boo as I speak 😳
I see Lynds has already got tired of seeing her other self and has reverted to the self she got tired of seeing previously. 😈
Okay I’m here.
Power failure NOW please, before the Lions have to use their reserves.
GO LIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reds concede a penalty 1m from the Lions’ tryline. don’t know what for
Now the room is crowded!
@klempie (Comment 18) : It’s a new picture, I don’t think I have ever uploaded that one here.
@klempie (Comment 18) :
nope I think you have a cache problem. 😉
@Lyndy_in_Mtl (Comment 22) : The one I’m seeing is you in a pink polat neck of some sort. 😕 I saw the other one the other day.
Mentz tackles Houston who drops the ball in the tackle, on the line. Try-saver!!
13-24 after 56
@KSA Shark © (Comment 23) : Deleting temporary internet files…. 🙄
Assistant Medler Paul Marks recommends a yellow card and 15 white, Earl Rose, get’s a Yellow
How is that a yellow and not the Reds #4??????????????????????????
Cooper try!
@KSA Shark © (Comment 19) :
Would love them to win… but they were my only possible choice in LMS…
What happens in the case of a draw?
Man my ‘live’ updates are far behind!
Another Yellow for the Lions\ Anton v Zyl for cynical play.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 27) :
Sorry that was for #19 White, Kruger
where are the reds from?
@bryce_in_oz (Comment 30) :
You only get eliminated or lose a lifeline if your team loses. A draw is considered a win on LMS.
Cards all over the place 😕 20-24 after 58
60 min
Reds 20 – 24 Lions
Lions only have 6 forwards on the field
@KSA Shark © (Comment 35) :
I’ll take a draw with bonus pt then thanks mate…
@Lyndy_in_Mtl (Comment 34) :
Queensland… East coast of Australia…
@Lyndy_in_Mtl (Comment 34) :
Brisbane.
Used to be called the Queensland Reds
@bryce_in_oz (Comment 38) :
Cant watch any more 😕
Mentz TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Rahul (Comment 41) :
Tell your mom she can watch BBC prime later. 😉
Hattrick for Mentz tonight.
Conversion Over
Reds 20 – 31 Lions
66min
Houston knocks on in the tackle 10m from the line. 😳
Kruger back on for the Lions.
Back to 14 men
@KSA Shark © (Comment 43) : 😛 you think I let her stay with me?
@Rahul (Comment 46) :
😆 is she staying with J?
@KSA Shark © (Comment 45) : They had 2 in the bin?
Mentz living up the rep I’ve given him this season… and a little ‘who’s your daddy’ to the cocky Cooper…
Wepener most definitely the 3rd best hooker in RSA… with Strauss just behind him… Vermaak also just behind Kockott in 3rd place…
Thanks.
Lions back to 15 men.
7 – 7 Was the score while they were down to 13 men.
Reds try a pushover try and the Lions wheel the scrum.
Lions put in on the reset.
GO LIONS
68min
@KSA Shark © (Comment 47) : of course she is, 3 ours on thursday was enough for me…. bl00dy aussies 😉
@Rahul (Comment 48) :
YIP 2nd one was about a minute later.
@Lyndy_in_Mtl (Comment 22) : @KSA Shark © (Comment 23) : Weird. I have deleted my internet files and it is still loading the old pic. 😕 Nevermind. I like this one better anyway. 😉
SB picks for this game.
Picks for Reds 27527 (69.07%)
Picks for Lions 12145 (30.47%)
Picks for draw 182 (0.46%)
I am part of the 30% BTW.
Reds Maul from LO 5m out and the Lions win a PK for “truck and trailor” obstruction.
Lions clear from their line with the PK.
Lions will take this… oh the irony… the default team to lose me my lifeline… and more than likely the team to finish me off too… lol!
As long as they finish above the Stormer’s then…
@klempie (Comment 55) :
I KNOW you are a IT guy so i won’t ask if you have done a “Ctrl + F5” 🙄
@bryce_in_oz (Comment 58) :
😆
74min
Reds 20 – 31 Lions
Morning all…..just logged in…..Stormers are pathetic!
Just hope for Walter & the other Lions guys, that they can go on and win this!
AP Drop goal misses to the right.
76min
Reds 20 – 31 Lions
@KSA Shark © (Comment 59) : OK that worked but my method should have too.
@klempie (Comment 55) : Odd.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 61) : Please see comment 1 😉
@Me2 (Comment 62) :
Same here.
oh and also coz I picked them on SB. 🙄 🙄
@Me2 (Comment 62) : Me2. I sent you an email yday re the B&I Lions game… 😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 67) :
I see Walter and Whindy picked the Reds on SB. 😆 😳
Hmmm and Hmmmm both picked the Lions. (True patriotism)
78min
Reds 20 – 31 Lions
FULL TIME
Reds 20 – 31 Lions
Im ALIVE…..
@klempie (Comment 68) : Got it, thanks…..sorry only replies this morning 🙁
Heh, can you tell I am a little tired? I just realized I have been watching the wrong game for the last 20 mins.
Log updated
Lions go 11th
Stormers drop to 12th
Reds stay 13th
@KSA Shark © (Comment 69) :
That’ll teach Walter…
@KSA Shark © (Comment 69) :
Good for the Lions! I guess it is the Reds though… they’ve looked pretty average since they played us? 👿
Its raining pretty hard now, don’t see IPL happening 🙁
@Lyndy_in_Mtl (Comment 74) :
Bwhahahahahahhaha
@KSA Shark © (Comment 71) : Thank goodness….at last!!!!
@Lyndy_in_Mtl (Comment 74) : Which game is that?
@bryce_in_oz (Comment 76) :
I know how he feels, I did the same thing on occasion last year. only for the Sharks to win. 😳
Last man Standing decimated yet again this weekend.
@klempie (Comment 81) : an nrl game? the somethings from somewhere versus the other guys. it’s finished now. 😳
@Frisbee (Comment 78) : Should have picked Natal…best weather in the country this time of the year 😛
Also would not have messed with Comrades 🙄
Last Man Standing
Eliminated
Bryce’s Bruisers
Kobus Best XV
Linkers 6
Lion King
Ragged’s Rotters
Transvaal
Trinity
Lifelines lost
flop
Hoolies
Sharks 2009
Whindy’s Winners
LMS is going to be very interesting! 🙂
@Me2 (Comment 85) : Haha, but then I wouldn’t have had a chance to watch the opening games live 🙂 stupid cape town 🙁
I am 4 from 4 on Superbru.
let’s hope my luck holds.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 89) : I am 0 for 4! Yay me.
Poor Phil Mooney is one of the most unhappy coaches I have seen in a while.
@Lyndy_in_Mtl (Comment 90) :
@KSA Shark © (Comment 92) : I know. I chalked full of awesomeness 🙄
@Lyndy_in_Mtl (Comment 84) : LMAO. You were watching rugby league?? You know in rugby league it is 13 a side right? But I can understand why you may have been confused as the Lions were down to 13 at one stage.
Well done Lions!
VERY VERY GOOD, WELL DONE LIONS