The Lions rugby team received a cool reception upon its arrival at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Monday morning to tour South Africa for the first time in 12 years.
Airports Company of SA officials dished out green T-shirts stating “Welcome to Springbok Country” to bystanders at the airport.
SAPA reports that Free Stater Pieter van Rensburg of Kroonstad, who woke up at 03:00, was one of a few fans who arrived to welcome the team.
He brought a Lions jersey to secure signatures and was not disappointed when head coach Ian McGeeghan obliged, followed by his players, who were then whisked away on two buses without speaking to the media.
The team, made up of players from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, is on a ten-match tour which will end in three back-to-back tests against the Springboks.
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Free Stater Pieter van Rensburg of Kroonstad, who woke up at 03:00, was one of a few fans who arrived to welcome the team.
I’ll tell you, those Kroonstad people are a bunch of nutters. 😉
@KSA Shark © (Comment 1) : so we gathered
@rekinek (Comment 2) :
HEY!!!!!!!!!!! 😛
A nutter, who now has the Lions squads signatures – not bad.
@Salmonoid (Comment 4) : and it looks like he didn’t even have to queque. 😆
if i knew i would have gone
@rekinek (Comment 5) :
No, he probably stuck out like a sore thumb with his red jersey – and got special treatment for his efforts. 😎
This actually fits better with this thread.
Here is the perfect avatar if you are supporting the Southern Kings against the Lions. (Thanks to jarsonx for the info)
The Southern Kings’ jersey.
It looks cool IMO
Larger picture, thanks Morne.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 9) :
Does look cool, but wouldn’t want to see a person with a boep in one. 😯
@KSA Shark © (Comment 10) : don’t like the colour 😕
don’t know about the superhero shorts…
@rekinek (Comment 11) :
What colour is this anyway…??? 😕
@rekinek (Comment 11) :
There is bound to be an alternate strip, with a cool colour, 🙂
@blackshark (Comment 13) :
It’s Sharki, combination of Shit and Khakim so that the colour won’t show up so clearly in their pants when they play the Big S15 teams. 😉
actually the colour is supposedly gold, u know royalty, we’ll have to wait for the real thing to see what it really looks like. ‘Stash’ seems to design some really cool clothes. Maybe the Sharks should sign a contract with them.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 15) :
Hey…that’s too close to home…well the Sharki bit… 😥
@JarsonX (Comment 16) :
But it looks too…uh…designed…
IMO the strip is a beauty
@JarsonX (Comment 19) : the jersey and the strip(dance) is beautiful 😛
@blackshark (Comment 18) : and whats wrong with that 🙂
@JarsonX (Comment 16) :
Probably because he has some stash somewhere for “inspiration”
@Ollie (Comment 22) :
Some of the actual jerseys on their websie are damn nice. the “graphic” ones don’t do justice to photographs of ACTUAL Jerseys.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 1) :
Family?? 😈
@KSA Shark © (Comment 23) : ditto, i saw they’ve got alot of stash on their site and such a cool name ‘buystash’ 😆 every junkie’s dream
@KSA Shark © (Comment 1) : not as nutty as the bulls supporter that left his seat 20 minutes from game time on saturday to sit at the ticket office which opened this morning at 8 am. and the ticket office is only selling season ticket holders their tickets. so the guy waited 2 days to get tickets he was guarenteed on getting anyway.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 23) :
hey – pleASE – Go aNd appRove My New Avatar.. 🙄 Eish – cant complain about the service around here, coz there aint any.. 🙄 😆
@Prof. Ice (Comment 24) :
I didn’t breed there, I was only educated there. 😛
@try time (superrugby’s kryptonite is SANZAR) (Comment 26) : i see bulls changed their tune. all tickets went on sale today. strange that wasn’t the gist i got on all out rugby yesterday.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 15) :
@KSA Shark © (Comment 23) : are u becoming a southern kings supporter 😯 maybe i am 😯 😛
@Prof. Ice (Comment 27) :
I’ll see if I have time to go and do it for you sometime tomorrow. 😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 9) :
Those look like “shoe-broekies” are they planning on being their own “Flasher” girls too??
@JarsonX (Comment 31) : yeah at least they have an excuse if they play shit rugby. 😆
@JarsonX (Comment 31) : now imagine my avatar wearing that strip 🙄
@KSA Shark © (Comment 32) :
Well it’s OBVIOUS you were bred in SA… 😆
@Prof. Ice (Comment 33) : who is that rock spider in your avatar. 😆
@KSA Shark © (Comment 23) :
What is the url for their website?
@JarsonX (Comment 31) :
No!!!!!!!!!!!! But there is something you will learn about me as time goes by. 😉
I tend to buy, or want to buy, a jersey if I like the design, regardless of whether I support the team or not.
It is only when I DISLIKE a team intensely that I will not buy one of their jerseys. Hell I don’t even buy any light blue clothes. 😀
@KSA Shark © (Comment 10) :
It looks like it WAS designed with Boep’s in mind….those stripes are very “verslankend”.. 😆
@try time (superrugby’s kryptonite is SANZAR) (Comment 34) : so how was your DIY(destroy it yourself) this weekend? Had fun? 😆
@Ollie (Comment 38) :
http://www.buystash.com
🙂 Seriously!
@try time (superrugby’s kryptonite is SANZAR) (Comment 37) :
@Prof. Ice (Comment 36) :
Rather bred in SA than being inbred in SA. 😆
@JarsonX (Comment 41) : sheez, i never realised the list had gotten that long. i must have watched a lot of rugby.
@Prof. Ice (Comment 40) : i dont think i’ll look good in one 😳
@JarsonX (Comment 41) :
i have to say – I also enjoyed the DIY this weekend…I gave orders and hubby had to do it.. 😈
@Prof. Ice (Comment 40) :
verslankend = slimming. 😉
Yeah but if a boep goes underneath the stripes will no longer curve inwards. 😳
@Prof. Ice (Comment 43) : use tippex. 😆
@KSA Shark © (Comment 39) : i like my black and whites too
@KSA Shark © (Comment 48) :
sliMMing… 😉
@KSA Shark © (Comment 10) :
😉
@KSA Shark © (Comment 39) : hence concern
@Prof. Ice (Comment 51) :
Why the capitals MM’s ❓
😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 48) : @Prof. Ice (Comment 51) : i dont think anyone will look good sliming
@rekinek (Comment 52) : 😆
@JarsonX (Comment 54) :
Bulls fans are always mostly sliming but NEVER slimming. 😛
hey ive almost got 1500 comments 😛
@JarsonX (Comment 54) : you haven’t watched mud wrestling then. even slimy oil wrestlers look good. but it does depend on the quality of the wrestlers. 😆
@KSA Shark © (Comment 56) : always mostly 😕 😉 aint that completely diffirent
@try time (superrugby’s kryptonite is SANZAR) (Comment 58) : i hope thats female wrestlers you are refering to 😉
@JarsonX (Comment 57) : not talking enough shit. now watch at ice and ksa and learn.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 53) :
HAHA – if only we ALL could correct our mistakes…spoilt BRAT!! 👿 😉
@JarsonX (Comment 60) : thats what i was thinking. 😆 but i am sure reki, ice and me2 were thinking otherwise.
@JarsonX (Comment 59) :
😳 Always was supposed to be removed, becasue I did ONCE a looooong time ago hear about one Bulls fan that wasn’t slimy and thought I should change it to mostly, but that WAS only once and it was a long time ago.
@try time (superrugby’s kryptonite is SANZAR) (Comment 61) :
Queen Ice And King SA..
@Prof. Ice (Comment 62) :
@try time (superrugby’s kryptonite is SANZAR) (Comment 61) : well i am trying to 🙁
1484
1485
1486
@JarsonX (Comment 60) :
In that case very fiew will have the boep problem 😉
For that case they have little use for the jersey 🙂
1487
@JarsonX (Comment 72) : i can go on and on and on and on…… 😛
@Prof. Ice (Comment 65) : mmm ice queen, what will sharkette say about this new arrangement. when did you two elope? 😆
@try time (superrugby’s kryptonite is SANZAR) (Comment 74) :
Kette will moer her. 😛
If we throw in some slime and a swimsuit or two we could sell tickets. 😛
@try time (superrugby’s kryptonite is SANZAR) (Comment 74) :
She is Queen SA… 😉
I am just the coldest of bietses..hence Ice Queen..
@JarsonX (Comment 67) : and not doing too badly 😆
i say Silver Fox may just loose his place in the first twenty quickly.
@KSA Shark © (Comment 75) :
Now I will probably be the one getting moered. 😆
I wonder if I can organise some slime…………..
@rekinek (Comment 77) : how far away am i 😆
@KSA Shark © (Comment 75) :
gosh – that’s not the picture in my head I want to see!! 😆
@KSA Shark © (Comment 75) :
Slow down with the moering bit…you know I am not a fighter!! 😯 😆
The only moering I can do is moer backwards if I had a wine or two too many! 😆
@KSA Shark © (Comment 75) : OK! Now you’ve got my attention 😆
@JarsonX (Comment 79) : Fox has 1585 or so, so pretty close but I am just behind you so watch out
@rekinek (Comment 82) : its a race then lol ive got 1493 now 😛
@KSA Shark © (Comment 75) : i’ll buy. and i’ll supply the oil. 😆
@JarsonX (Comment 83) :
Hmmm…is that you? 😯
@Prof. Ice (Comment 80) : save the moer for the oil pit.:lol:
@JarsonX (Comment 83) : let’s see who gets first to the XX.then
@blackshark (Comment 85) : why 😆 no im not Hmmm
@rekinek (Comment 87) : you’re on!
@rekinek (Comment 87) : how much of a headstart do i have 😀
as much as I love lots of comments, let’s try to keep them just a little bit sensible, ok? Marks, get set…
@robdylan (Comment 91) : now what would be sensible 😀
@robdylan (Comment 91) :
SHhhhhJJJJTTTT!! We are having fun…you gonna wake your little one, now off you go! … 😉 😉
@JarsonX (Comment 92) : like relating to rugby