Lions Tour UK and Ireland Kick off Times Sat May 30..........Highveld XV, Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg........................2:00pm Wed June 3..........Golden Lions, Coca Cola Park*, Johannesburg......................6:10pm Sat June 6...........Free State Cheetahs, Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein...............2:00pm Wed June 10........Sharks, ABSA Park, Durban..............................................6:10pm Sat June 13.........Western Province, Newlands, Cape Town............................2:00pm Tue June 16.........Coastal XV, Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, Port Elizabeth........2:00pm Sat June 20.........1st TEST SOUTH AFRICA, ABSA Park, Durban.......................2:00pm Tue June 23.........Emerging SA, Newlands, Cape Town...................................6:10pm Sat June 27.........2nd TEST SOUTH AFRICA, Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria...............2:00pm Sat July 4...........3rd TEST SOUTH AFRICA, Coca Cola Park*, Johannesburg.......2:00pm
Should be good, but as always it will be remembered for the Test matches. Too early to predict a winner yet.
With the squad the lions have, on paper looks so strong and hopefully they will make a clean sweep on this tour
You don't watch Super14 rugby so, SA will beat the Lions easily. This is a weak Lions team with only 2/3 world class players. SA have around 6/7 world class players, Matfield, Botha, Spies, Burger, Habana, De Villiers, Juan Smith. If anyone wants to offer 1/2 on Saffa's il put a serious bet on.
About 90% of the white south africans Ive come across are arrogant,anti irish nobheads. Hope they get stuffed.
Saffa's are an unbelievably arrogant bunch alright and thats not a generalisation. I would love to see Lions win but no chance.
anyone who thinks the lions will wipe the foor with sa is insane.I pick the SA to win 2 one and thats presuming everything goes right for the lions. Poc would struggle to make the SA team,thats how strong they are. Backrow battle will be huge.
Bar O'Driscoll theres really not one player who would get in the Springboks team and that includes O'Connell as Matfield and Bakkies Botha are the 2 best players in that position in the world. Ronan was saying 5/4 SA to win all 3 tests and judging by there performance yesterday against a 2nd level SA 15 that had never played together thats not gona be to difficult.
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Only time will tell, but i was so disappointed with the Lions' performance yesterday, too many errors...
Lee Byrne was the only good thing to come out of the match,he surely will start as the full back now.Other than that there is very little to look forward to Wednesdays much tougher match.
Team to face Golden Lions tomorrow: 15. Rob Kearney (Leinster/Ireland) 14. Tommy Bowe (Ospreys/Ireland) 13. Brian O'Driscoll (Leinster/Ireland) (capt) 12. Jamie Roberts (Cardiff Blues/Wales) 11. Ugo Monye (Harlequins/England) 10. Stephen Jones (Scarlets/Wales) 9. Mike Phillips (Ospreys/Wales) 1. Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues/Wales) 2. Lee Mears (Bath/England) 3. Phil Vickery (London Wasps/England) 4. Nathan Hines (Perpignan/Scotland) 5. Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys/Wales) 6. Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers/England) 7. David Wallace (Munster/Ireland) 8. Jamie Heaslip (Leinster/Ireland) Replacements: 16. Ross Ford (Edinburgh/Scotland) 17. Euan Murray (Northampton Saints/Scotland) 18. Stephen Ferris (Ulster/Ireland) 19. Andy Powell (Cardiff Blues/Wales) 20. Harry Ellis (Leicester Tigers/England) 21. James Hook (Ospreys/Wales) 22. Shane Williams (Ospreys/Wales)
Lions cruising here against the golden lions, 20-3 up already with only 20 minutes played, O'Driscoll scored the second try and could maybe should have had 3 tries.
There does seem to be alot more cohesion in the team now, doesn't there? There were many great performances the other night, especially the Irish lads and Roberts...Bowe really was impressive, his vision to be able to pick out a pass, and find those pockets of space is incredible...