The tour rolls on an stops in Cape Town before heading back up the coast en route to Durban for the first test.
Will a weakened WP team stand in the way of this, the lesser of the two Lions teams on tour?
Or will the Lions want to show that their narrow win against the Free State was nothing other than an aberration?
Kick-off at Newlands is at 15h00.
Teams:
Western Province: 15 Joe Pietersen, 14 Tonderai Chavhanga, 13 Morgan Newman, 12 Peter Grant, 11 Gcobani Bobo, 10 Willem de Waal, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage, 8 Luke Watson (captain), 7 Duane Vermeulen, 6 Pieter Louw, 5 Anton Van Zyl, 4 Martin Muller, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Tiaan Liebenberg, 1 Wicus Blaauw.
Replacements: 16 Hanyani Shimange, 17 JD Moller, 18 De Kock Steenkamp, 19 Zandre Jordaan, 20 Conrad Hoffmann, 21 JJ Engelbrecht, 22 Gio Aplon.
B&I Lions: 15 Rob Kearney, 14 Tommy Bowe, 13 Keith Earls, 12 Riki Flutey, 11 Ugo Monye, 10 Stephen Jones, 9 Harry Ellis, 8 Andy Powell, 7 Martyn Williams, 6 Joe Worsley, 5 Nathan Hines, 4 Donncha O’Callaghan, 3 Phil Vickery (captain), 2 Matthew Rees, 1 Andrew Sheridan
Replacements: 16 Ross Ford, 17 Euan Murray, 18 Simon Shaw, 19 Tom Croft, 20 Mike Blair, 21 James Hook, 22 Gordon D’Arcy.
Referee: Mark Lawrence
Assistant referee: Wayne Barnes (England), Cobus Wessels
TMO: Shaun Veldsman
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Halftime
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the baby boks beat france 43-27. Well done laaities
geez this place is dead 😯 🙁
Joe Pietersen doesn’t tackle!! 🙄
De Waal is such a LIMITED player. Excellent kicker and rubbish otherwise!
@JarsonX (Comment 3) : Well it’s Province… 😛
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It seems their midweek team are better than the weekend team
@JarsonX (Comment 7) : MUCH MUCH better. There is a HUGE difference. I can pick their test side now…
@klempie (Comment 6) : they are pensioners not cadavers 😆 for now at least
@Villie (Comment 8) : if they want to beat the boks on the weekends, they will need to change somewhere, expect a loss against the southern king
@JarsonX (Comment 2) : halftime score was bb 0-20 france, what a come back
@JarsonX (Comment 3) : aha 🙄
@Villie (Comment 8) : O’Driscoll – adi will have to take good care of him
@rekinek (Comment 13) : I’m more worried about Jamie Roberts to be honest. O’Driscoll is good but he’s not the player he once was!
@JarsonX (Comment 11) : 11-20 😳
@Villie (Comment 4) : he is too small. so unless PdV will see him as another tiger 🙄 S14 may be his ceiling.
@Villie (Comment 14) : experience, experience. I agree with you about Roberts, but in crunch time he will need BOD next to him.