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A number of players are on the doubtful list for the start of the 2014 Super Rugby season including Elton Jantjies [shoulder surgery], Anthony Volmink [shoulder], Deon van Rensburg [leg], who could make even though he is still in rehabilitation, Ruan Dreyer [shoulder], who might only return at the e...

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Lions will announce their Super Rugby squad an launch their SR jersey on 30 January

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As a direct result of SARU's feet dragging on the Currie Cup issue the Lions lost their name sponsor MTN. No major sponsor wants to commit for only one year and the uncertainty of whether there would be knockout games had a direct influence o this decision. The partnership between the Golden Lions R...

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Ellis Park season ticket packages for 2014 GOLD PACKAGE - Seated on Grand Stand (West Lower) - Includes all 8 Super Rugby home games - Includes any possible Super Rugby play-off or semi-final - Includes all 5 Absa Currie Cup home games - Includes any possible Absa Currie Cup semi-final match - Inclu...

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A number of Lions players are currently not taking part in practices due to injuries including Elton Jantjies, Anthony Volmink, Lionel Mapoe, Deon van Rensburg, Dylan des Fountain, Alwyn Hollenbach and Ruan Dreyer. Jantjies and Volmink had shoulder ops and might miss the start of the Super Rugby sea...

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OomPB wrote: Strange, Minnie has been great.

True but Whiteley was the captain after JC until he got injured.

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OomPB wrote: Strange, Minnie has been great.

True but Whiteley was the captain after JC until he got injured.

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Head coach Johan Ackermann announced this morning that WARREN WHITELEY will captain the MTNLions in the 2014 Super Rugby tournament

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Flight of the fish eagle

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Lions extended training squad (to be reduced on Friday). A few of the Lions age group players are in the group including the monster u/19 hooker Malcolm Marx (188 cm | 119 Kg). http://kingedward.co.za/library/ContentImages/thumb_788503MalcolmMarx%20MOMWeb.jpg Fullbacks: Andries Coetzee, Ruan Combrin...

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Translate: Merry Xmas --- fudge you

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Blake wrote:Jaco Taute was great for the Baby Boks and for the Lions, but since his move to the Cape he was been a dud. Just like Van Den Heever.

Four matches and a total of 160 minutes for the Stormers are enough to write him off?

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The Stormers will give top Springboks Jean de Villiers, Duane Vermeulen and Eben Etzebeth an extended rest period during their pre-season preparations. The Stormers, who finished seventh in this year's Super Rugby competition, will start their pre-season preparations next Monday. Coach Allister Coe...

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Big Nipper wrote:Lions really don't deserve to be back in the fray. Have an abysmal record, expect more of the same next year.

A comment I once read" "At least the Lions EARNED the right to be crap"

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Big Nipper wrote: That promotion relegation battle was decided on the closest of margins.

The operative phrase. The margin and your opinions are irrelevant.

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I hope to confirm this and get some answers to other questions when I meet with the Lions CEO, Manie Booysen, later today. LV of We Talk Rugby and I went to Ellis Park yesterday for a planned half hour interview with the Lions CEO, Manie Booysen, and ended up spending two and a half hours there, fi...

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Excellent! :thumbup: Ask him the question about Jimmy Stonehouse. Once you get him on board, we'll see a totally different Lion. The Pumas in particular made certain demands for their players to become involved in Super Rugby with the Lions, demands that are difficult if not impossible to comply wi...

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The Lions announced their final preparation matches before their 2014 Super Rugby campaign starts.

24 January: v Leopards @ Ellis Park (Two teams)
1 February: v Southern Kings @ Port Elizabeth
7 February: v Sharks @ Ellis Park

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Flooding in Strand & Somerset West 16 Nov 2013 https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1393557_10152376195053102_1161412518_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1452343_10152376213918102_1121418676_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/14...

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According to Suparugby eight Pumas players will join the Lions at practice on Monday: Props Vincent Koch and Corné Fourie, lock Rudi Mathee, flank Renaldo Bothma, centres Stefan Watermeyer and Wilmaure Louw and fullback/flyhalves Coenie van Wyk and Carl Bezuidenhout. I had hoped that their scrummie ...

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THE three SANZAR countries will meet in London on Friday to discuss the future of Super Rugby following South Africa's rejection of a proposed two-conference system , that would have seen Argentina join the competition. Under the two-conference system, six South African teams would play in one conf...

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The home and away Super Rugby derby matches could be dropped in favour of playing every team when the tournament format is restructured in 2016. New Zealand Rugby Players association boss Rob Nichol has revealed that players would prefer to drop the home and away local derbies and rather play all o...

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Two WP juniors joining the Lions juniors:

Ramone Samuels - Loose forward
03 November 1994

2013 DHL WP Under-19 Best Forward
2013 WP u/19 Captain
2012 WP Craven Week Captain

Selom Gavor - Wing
18 September 1993

2013 WP u/21
2012 WP u/19

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Kings announced their pre-season matches:

Lions v Southern Kings: 1 February

Other Kings friendlies:

25 January: Kings v Cheetahs
7 February: Kings v Stormers

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Sammy Davis Jr - Birth of the Blues (Commercial I know but one of my favourites)

http://youtu.be/bMHLWDis6ZA

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Commenting on his departure from The Sharks, Straeuli shared that one of his goals for the future is to establish a strong relationship between the Durban-based franchise and the GLRU. “I feel that synergy in the rugby industry is important and I believe that two rugby unions working in tandem can ...

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Howlin' Wolf - Little Red Rooster

http://youtu.be/qaP0QuW5KOw

The Rolling Stones - Little Red Rooster

http://youtu.be/lYNKm73Qv74

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Keb' Mo'

Dirty Low Down & Bad

http://youtu.be/DSEz8A0EnXs

Every Morning

http://youtu.be/vjKFpBO7u9w

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Janis Joplin - Cry Baby

http://youtu.be/YhLinEY7Zn8

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Multi tasking

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All Black selector Grant Fox believes that player welfare is about far more than just a central contracting system. The fact that players are contracted to the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) instead of the individual unions means that their workload can be managed more effectively, but Fox believes...

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Solving the housing shortage in SA

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I see Mnisi is still contracted with Griquas Marnus Hugo, JP Nel and Jean retired, Jacques Coetzee to Oz, Du Randt Gerber back to Italy. Wesley Wilkins, Rudi Vogt and Dusty Noble injured, night retire. Rory Arnold injured but talking to Brumbies & Waratahs Griquas contracted players 2014 Forwards: L...

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Straeuli to sign with the Lions RUDOLF Straeuli will today put pen to paper and commit to the Lions as their new, albeit loosely defined, rugby and commercial general manager. Lions deputy president Altmann Allers said the Sharks had released their former commercial manager and, if all went well, S...

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How about some older birds for the 40+ crowd? Masako Mizutani (43) http://www.bizarbin.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Masako-Mizutani1.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zjf0etxPVvM/TrvbPq5JRDI/AAAAAAAAIos/WcwZLFL8DIs/s1600/Masako%2BMizutani10.jpg Sophie Marceau (46) http://imagebox.cz.osobnosti.cz/tape...

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