The Lions confirmed yesterday that the two front-line players who sustained injuries during Saturday’s warm-up against the Southern Kings will indeed miss the start of the 2014 Super Rugby season.
Lock Rudi Mathee, who plays for Lions franchise partner the Pumas, suffered a hairline fracture to his forearm and will thus spend up to eight weeks on the sidelines. Fullback Andries Coetzee’s knee injury, though, was not as serious as feared; he sustained a grade 2 MCL strain, meaning a spell of up to a month out, but fortunately no operation required.
Both players should thus return to the selection frame well ahead of the Lions’ Antipodean tour.
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Pumas’ Coenie van Wyk is back at the Lions a week after being released as Ruan Combrinck also suffer light concussion during the Kings game
Always sorry to hear about any injury. Remember our bad run last year ? Lions will struggle during this S15. Depth big problem! Both Martin Muller and Franco Mostert returned from long layoffs with injuries. Not sure where they get a lock to partner Franco? T
@Observer (Comment 2) : can they not play that Britz at 4?
Willie can play 4 but probably not the best second row scrumming option, especially with the inexperienced props we have (apart from Bees Roux)
Another option is Tecklenburg
For S15 you need a proper 4 no make shift !
@Baylion (Comment 4) : Isnt Tecklenberg a bit short? Just judging by seeing him on tv
Ackermann should talk to Naka about a loan agreement for Ligtoring!!
@Original Pierre (Comment 7) : Lol, somehow I don’t think that would work. Landman is going to playing many matches for the Cheetahs. Maybe they can loan Waltie Vermeulen, cos I reckon Andries Ferreira will also be in the S15 final squad.
@KingCheetah (Comment 8) : I reckon all super15 coaches are holding onto their locks very tightly as they all seem to be going down at a quick rate.
We have Franco vd Merwe, Martin Muller, Franco Mostert and Ruan Venter. Not much experiance other than vd Merwe. Why dont we try to bring back Roodt?
@Baylion (Comment 1) : Seeing that we are so thin at fullback at the moment why not move Marnitz to fullback and play Willie du Plessis at flyhalf?
@robdylan (Comment 3) : I like Britz more as an impact player off the bench. I dont rate him as a lock, but he is a very decent back-up to have at loose forward
Bring back Kobus Wiese and u will have the heaviest pack in superrugby……
@KingsArmy (Comment 13) : Wiese can go up againt Matfield 😛