Match 5 - Griquas vs Lions

Griekwas:

Leeus: 15. EW Viljoen, 14. Rabz Maxwane, 13. Manuel Rass, 12. Matt More, 11. Divan Rossouw, 10. James Tedder, 9. Ginter Smuts, 8. Emmanuel Tshituka, 7. Ruan Venter, 6. Jarod Cairns, 5. Simon Dinisio, 4. Lunga Ncube, 3. Jannie du Plessis (c) , 2. Morne Brandon, 1. JP Smith.

Replacements: 16. Jacque-Lois du Toit, 17. Okuhle Siyeni, 18. Asenathi Ntlabakanye, 19. MJ Pelser, 20. Mark Snyman, 21. Jurich Claasens, 22. Luke Rossouw, 23. James Mollentze.

1. Mollentze in Ras se plek.

2. Izan in 1 van Mark Snyman of MJ Pelser se plek. (2 fetchers op die bank?)

Baie bly oor Jannie en ook oor James Tedder. Ook bly oor Luke Rossouw op die bank. Rossouw het n moerse boot aan hom.

I hope the union management has their facts right about the promotion/relegation system because it's pretty much guaranteed that we will end last.

The currie cup means something , yesterday I was watching the breakdown on sky sports and they still showed upcoming currie cup games. 

In other words , it’s a commercial product that generates income. 

With the lions basically effectively saying “we couldn’t care less about the currie cup, we will just play with our u21s”. That damages the tournament and wil cost SA rugby money , look at the currie cup sponsorship with Absa , it’s a self fulfilling prophecy. 

We need to invest money into keeping players in SA , otherwise we will be in an endless cycle of downsizing and the currie cup will become completely irrelevant. 

If SA rugby knew what they were doing , they’d do more and contacts springboks centrally and make sure all teams can compete. They don’t and we are where we are

I’m not just blaming SA rugby , the lions are 80% their own problem , but it doesn’t help that we don’t run SA rugby like NZ runs their systems i.e with central contracting 

Ons belretensie is pateties. 

Enige afrigter weet vaste fastte, balretensie en verdediging is die basics. Dis al wat ons in die verlede baie goed gedoen het. Almal het ons toe beskryf is so aanvallende span, maar eintlik was ons belretensie net baie goed. Dit het die opposisie frustreer. Saam met dit was ons verdediging puik en so het ons die opposisie onder groot druk gesit. Dit was ook opvallend daai tyd dat ons die minste tackles in SR gemaak het. As ons die bal het, kan die opposisie nie punte aanteken nie.

Ook ooglopend daai tyd was die kameraderie en motivering wat die afrigtingspan in die groep kon meebring.