The final match this Saturday is a South African derby match between the Lions and the Stormers, played at Coca Cola Park. The Lions have been ravaged by a spate of injuries, while the Stormers have enjoyed a good start to the season.
The Lions have plastered together a team from what they have available after 11 of their first choice players have succumbed to injury. Pat Cilliers is back for the Lions though, and will add some grunt to the front row, which will be needed against a strong Stormers scrumming outfit.
For the Stormers, we see an unchanged team from the one that beat the Blues in Cape Town last Friday, and they will look to continue where they left off and remain on top of the local conference.
Lions: 15 James Kamana, 14 Deon van Rensburg, 13 Jaco Taute, 12 Doppies la Grange, 11 Andries Coetzee, 10 Butch James, 9 Tian Meyer, 8 Warren Whiteley, 7 Joshua Strauss (captain), 6 Derick Minnie, 5 Franco van der Merwe, 4 Marius Coetzer, 3 Patric Cilliers, 2 Callie Visagie, 1 Caylib Oosthuizen
Substitutes: 16 Martin Bezuidenhout, 17 Jacobie Adriaanse, 18 Stephan Greeff, 19 Cobus Grobbelaar, 20 Ross Cronje, 21 Michael Killian, 22 Ruan Combrinck
Stormers: 15. Johan Pietersen, 14. Gio Aplon, 13. Juan de Jongh, 12. Jean de Villiers (Captain), 11. Bryan Habana, 10. Peter Grant, 9. Dewaldt Duvenage, 8. Nick Koster, 7. Duane Vermeulen, 6. Siya Kolisi, 5. Andries Bekker, 4. Eben Etzebeth, 3. Brok Harris, 2. Tiaan Liebenberg, 1. Steven Kitshoff
Replacements: 16. Siyabonga Ntubeni, 17. Frans Malherbe, 18. De Kock Steenkamp, 19. Nizaam Carr, 20. Louis Schreuder, 21. Gary Van Aswegen, 22. Gerhard van den Heever
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Go Lions…
Ag just for the heg of it I picked the lions to win….
Stormers storm into the lions 22 from the kickoff….
@Franshark (Comment 2) : LOL me too…hoping I wasn’t crazy!
Stormers over, TMO, but it will be
Help up
Liebenberg awarded a try
Joe P conversion over
Stormers 7 – 0 Lions
2 min
No man…tmo saw if differently..
Stormers 7 Lions 0 2 mins in
@Just a Fan (Comment 6) : help with what, 😉
PK for Joe from about 56 meters out
Hits the upright
@Franshark (Comment 10) : my sanity i reckon…but i was typing on the blackberry and meant to type Held Up….i didnt think it was a try 😳
@Just a Fan (Comment 13) : thought so, pulling your chain,
@Franshark (Comment 14) : yeah..gotta hang onto my sense of humour if I picked the Lions to win… 😀 😎
Duvenhage pinned for off side, Stormers steel the line out
Taute kicking from 50 meters, miss
6 Natal boys in the lions 22
Go Lions Go
@Just a Fan (Comment 15) :
Habana gets try nr 50 for him in SR
Stormers 2nd
Joe P conversion missed
Stormers 12 – 0 Lions
15 min
Lions have the ball, but only 5 meters from their own line
Come on! Snoils!
🙁 Stoopid Stormers…..why can’t they start their mid tournament slide now…. 😉
PK
Stormers 15 – 0 Lions
21 min
@Just a Fan (Comment 25) : 🙂
Stormers 15 Lions 0 22 mins
Pat’s retaliation for a high tackle gets a penalty turned around and Joe goes for poles again
PK Joe
Lions 0 – 18 Stormers
26 min
comes liontjies
WHOOP WHOOP…TRY!!!!
TMO, try/no try, under the sticks
Try awarded to Meyer
Lions 7 Stormers 18 30 mins
James converts
Lions 7 – 18 Stormers
31 min
Lions have their tails up…hope they can covert to points….
Butch makes elementry kicking mistake. Lions lose chance to set up attacking lineout near the try line.
Bobby Skinstad is in love with the ref, Glen Jackson… 😆
lions going through the phases and creeping closer to the goal line
hopefully they can keep their discipline….
Into the stormers 22 now, into touch when they go wide
HALF TIME
Lions 7 – 18 Stormers
Butch James Pen Kick – adds another 3
Lions 13 stormers 18
@Just a Fan (Comment 43) : Keep up the updates, I’m not watching the 2 nd half, but will be hanging around
54 mins….Lions 13 Stormers 18 stilll but Lions playing with Vigor
Lions 5 mtrs from tryline…Stormers doing their best to lie all over the field of play
Lions Penalty…. Stormers have made over 80 tackles to the Lions 20…..
BUtch james pen kick right infront of poles…Lions 16 Stormers 18 57 mins
Lions well coached. Doing the basics well.
Stormers have conceded 10 penalties to the Lions 4
Come on lions do us sharks a favour
gotta be one of the games of the weekend…Lions are excellent..defense is immense….
Just hope that they can prove it with putting points on the board 🙂
Stormers have pen. adv. 10 mtrs from try line….. Stormers went for the try..Lions intercepted….whoop whoop.. cleared ball well down the field…
Stormers lining up pen kick…..and…..Joe gets it…
Stormers 21 Lions 16 68 mins
@Just a Fan (Comment 55) : come Lions
Lions win penalty from scrum….kick down field to set up line up
@Franshark (Comment 56) : I KNOW!! 😯
Eish Snoils are giving me palpitations…
Score still Stormers 21 Lions 16 75 mins
Aghhhh 👿 ..Lions were silly diving off their feet..kickable pen to Stormers..
Stormers 24 Lions 16 78 mins 🙁
Stormers sealing off the ball…Lions pen….set up the line out instead of going for pols…
Extra time..pen adv to Lions…
Lions take drop goal…full time score Lions 19 Stormers 24
4 from 7 for me..:(
@Just a Fan (Comment 65) : thanks for the updates, bad luck lions……
Think the Lions did blooming well here!
What…a…game!
Big relief from down here in Cape Town of course, but massive respect to the Lions who pushed us to the brink. I do hope SARU and the EP Kings are watching this.
Still, not many teams can make a hundred and twenty tackles, concede twice the penalties, and still take home the win.
Hail the Iron Wall of Cape Town!
The sign of a very good team = win matches even when not playing well.
Something the Sharks haven’t done in a while. 😈
@wpw (Comment 69) :
This Cylib guy is good. Scrums well, carries well.
Caylib was good again, so was Cilliers, Meyer 1000 times better than Bondisio but still not that x factor that they need
@wpw (Comment 69) :
Sign of a windbag: makes grandiose comments about a team that still hasnt won anything for about 10 years. 😈 😆
Well done LIONS – imho notch this one up as a win 😉
@Big Fish:
My response to your comment:
Stormers: Top of the overall log!
Sharks: 11th place overall
😆
@wpw (Comment 75) : And yet at the end of the season neither will have a trophy. 😛
@wpw (Comment 75) : Deja vu – you okes have been here before and still gone home at the end of the season crying into your lace handkerchiefs. 😉
😆 😆 😆 Typical Stormers fans…same every year, and just like every year we wont be hearing from them at the business end of the tournament. 😆 😆
Black and White…all that matters
On paper the Stormers are the best in SA, but they have the worst coaching staff and that is why they don’t have any trophies
JAF
All I have to say is ‘Look at the scoreboard’
@wpw (Comment 75) : hahaha. Remember you okes have to come to the Tank to play.. 😉 We will be waiting….hehehe.
To be honest Sharks should have beaten the Stormers at Newlands, only the Sharks discipline let us down.
I never saw this game yesterday but was really surprised to see the score. Thought Stormers would have beaten a depleted Lions side by a lot more. So credit to the Lions for keeping that score close and not allowing Stormers a bonus point…. 😛
@wpw (Comment 80) : Congratulations with the win yesterday.
Sharks doing okay so far. Sure we have lost 3 that we could have won, but in all the games we lost we have picked up a bonus point. So strictly speaking if we add on our bye points that Stormers and Bulls have received so far then we sitting 3 points from Bulls and 4 from Stormers.
The bonus points we collected are keeping us at striking range at the moment. From here we need to start winning more away from home to make up some ground.
So it is essential now that Sharks beat all the saffa sides especially the Bulls and Stormers at the tank. We lose to any there and that will probably be us out of the play offs.
Thanks Ben! 😉