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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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OomPB wrote:If there is one wish I hope the Lions will do next year. Make use of Jimmy Stonehouse and more of his Puma players.

Agree. But that's not only up to the Lions, the Pumas must be prepared to release players too. The Lions used a number of Pumas in the past, including 2012.

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DraadkarD wrote: Centre:
Barry Geel
Johann Sadie
Piet Lindeque
Francois Venter

No space for Mnisi?

Won't mind if the Lions can pull him in

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The Cheetahs are going to miss Robert Ebersohn. He was the fetcher and the defence organiser in the backline and unless they get someone to fill that role it is back to the poor defence of previous years I'm afraid.

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LionsWorld reports that Deon van Rensburg and Dylan Des Fountain re-signed for 2014

A bit more experience in the squad

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No, he has a suspended sentence. Played in Italy for a while after the court case. Lions got him as short term back up during the CC but hardly played him. They got the OK from the victim's family but I think there's some backroom fighting going on. It seems that at the time of recruiting him Kevin ...

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2012 Players lost:

2014 Confirmed contracted players (updated):
(Super Rugby & Vodacom Cup)

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enzedder01 wrote:Argument put to bed?

The truth shall set you free

Prune juice too

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Cheetahs loosehead prop Schalk van der Merwe's move to the Lions has been confirmed by his agent

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Twitter tweets suggest that Cheetahs prop Schalk van der Merwe signed with the Lions

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Things were too slow for this ball boy at the Currie Cup semi final between WP and the Lions https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/487578_475403559241730_2123872129_n.jpg At least this one was awake https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1391968_474977002617719_10217...

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Tried this one today at the Beerhouse. Enjoyed it https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1391876_10200909639164678_81948826_n.jpg and this one: CBC Amber Weiss, CBC is a craft brewery in Paarl https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1394231_10200909765607839_71770225_n...

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Not a comment on anyone's post (but some boredies may wish to bookmark it for future use)... http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/10/22/world/SUB-CZECH/SUB-CZECH-popup.jpg Is that a statue welcoming the guests to the gynaecologists bi-annual? With Czech Parliament election nigh, Czech artist pl...

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To say it's deliberate assumes that SARU can think. This was the result of sheer incompetence Either way, the other four SA franchises have got 10 points before the season has even started. How is that fair? The Kiwi sides can't really complain as they tend to do very well against their bottom side...

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To say it's deliberate assumes that SARU can think. This was the result of sheer incompetence

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Lionel Cronje off to the Brumbies

CJ van der Linde and Tian Meyer also gone

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Lions coach Johan Ackermann says that unless someone gives them a lot of money he will not be doing any recruiting ahead of Super Rugby.

http://www.rugby365.com/article/56767-t ... -for-lions

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We are pleased to confirm that Western Province scrumhalf Ricky Schroeder has signed a two year deal with the Golden Lions Rugby Union. He will link up with the #MTNLions squad in mid-November for their Super Rugby pre-season preparations. We look forward to welcoming you to the Pride of Jozi, Rick...

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