Veteran Valke lock Nico Luus has come out of retirement for the umpteenth time to join the Xerox Lions for this year’s ABSA Currie Cup competition.
Luus has represented the Eastern Gauteng side approximately 5000 times over the course of the last 30 years and has now finally been given a shot at the big time, with virtually every lock in the country unwilling to play for the Lions. Anton van Zyl and Dewald Senekal have left, while Gerhardt Mostert and Oupa Labuschagne are injured again.
Impressive former Boland lock Brad Mockford will also play for the Lions in the second row, along with warhorse Willem Stoltz and a raw youngster named Rob Andrew (pretty sure he’s not related to the former England flyhalf of the same name!).
Other new names in Jozi are Kevin Buys, Piet Engelbrecht and Johan Jackson. I’ve never heard of the former two, but the latter at least put in some reasonable performances for the Valke last year.
It’s going to be a loooong Currie Cup for the Lions, with a schoolboy coach and a squad full of journeymen.
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5000 caps – you just can’t buy experience say the coaches. In this case they obviously did!
That’s 166 games a season….impressive! 😎
…with virtually every lock in the country unwilling to play for the Lions.
* snigger
@klempie (Comment 2) : obviously a typo!?
@Rahul (Comment 4) : Obviously…
Hey what happened to you at the Sharks game, you fader?
last time I try any sort of irony or humour on this site! Clearly you bunch of miserable pedants simply don’t get it!
Had no cash, and then landed a job in Graaff Reinet last week. Would loved to have been there, even though we were thrashed. I havent seen KSA in years!
@klempie (Comment 5) : supposed to hit that arrow thingy first 😳
@robdylan (Comment 6) : WE not used to it from you!!!!
@Rahul (Comment 7) : Oh ok. Yeh we had a lekker wors braai after, althought it was flippen cold!
@Rahul (Comment 9) : guess I need to try harder 🙂
@klempie (Comment 10) : rub it in!
It’s going to be a loooong Currie Cup for the Lions, with a schoolboy coach and a squad full of journeymen
Ouch
@robdylan (Comment 11) : At least I realised it was wrong, Baldrick bought it hook line and sinker…
I’m just thinking about the teams who are going to be playing…
Province, Griquas and now Lions are all uninspiring. Perhaps the end of the CC will be self-imposed without S15…
@Rahul (Comment 14) : You should watch some Blackadder then you’d totally understand why… 🙂
that’s just too ghastly to contemplate 😕 . maybe somebody should compose the list of players who are staying with the lions, will be much easier.
@klempie (Comment 15) : we are yet to see leopards in proper action.
@rekinek (Comment 18) : True….perhaps they will bring some hope. 😛
Bulls, Sharks and possibly Cheetahs should do an F1 and form a breakaway triprovinces…
@klempie (Comment 15) :
Ah, lets see:
B&I Lions 39 Sharks 3
B&I Lions 26 WP 23
🙄
@wpw (Comment 21) : Sharks missing 9 Boks, Province missing ?
@wpw (Comment 21) :
B&I Lions-A 39 Sharks-B 3
B&I Lions-B 26 WP-A 23
@klempie (Comment 22) :
Sorry can you repeat that?? All i heard was blah blah blah, excuses excuses, blah blah blah!!!
@rekinek (Comment 17) :
Good idea, at least we will recognise most of those names.
@klempie (Comment 15) :
I think you can almost add the Sharks to that list, Im not nearly as optimistic as you are for the Currie Cup, especially before the Boks return.
@Salmonoid (Comment 26) : I’m in that boat too.
Griquas are a good side, though.
@Salmonoid (Comment 26) : if one is honest with oneself – this outing against BILs was uninspiring.
@robdylan (Comment 27) : are you having a Griquas day?
@Rahul (Comment 12) :
Me2 missed you too!! And that wors braai was lekker BUT the company even lekkerer 😀
@Me2 (Comment 30):sad: 👿 👿 👿
@rekinek (Comment 29) : maybe I’m a closet fan! 🙂
You are right, though, the tame Sharks capitulation against the BILs has left a sour taste in many a mouth.
@robdylan (Comment 32) : eyy. for better and worse.
@rekinek (Comment 33) : yes – true.
But I prefer the better…
@robdylan (Comment 6) :
No worries Robbo, I immediately got it, but then I am not a miserable pedant… 😆
Mmmm, enjoying some nice yogurt for lunch!!! 🙄
@wpw (Comment 36) :
You on a diet or are you steeling Daniel-Son’s snacks now already?? 😈
@Prof. Ice (Comment 37) : 👿 👿
@wpw (Comment 38) :
KFC flavoured yoghurt, 😯
@Salmonoid (Comment 40) :
OMG, NO!!!! 😯
@wpw (Comment 36) : are you what they call a mezzo(or sth like that) man
@rekinek (Comment 42) : more like a macro 🙂