Former champions’ slide in the log speaks of a "been there, done that" attitude.
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/ 1 February 2011
World Cup-winning flyhalf Butch James will be joining the Lions in May, it was announced on Tuesday when he arrived at Lanseria Airport.
Golden Lions coach John Mitchell, who was stabbed during a robbery on the weekend, returned to work on Monday after treatment for minor injuries.
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/ 17 September 2010
Young flyhalf Elton Jantjies has been instrumental in the Lions’ Currie Cup comeback.
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/ 2 September 2010
The Western Force have released coach John Mitchell from the final year of his contract and he will join the Lions on a three-year contract.
The Auckland Blues charged to a 56-14 victory over the Gauteng Lions, condemning them to the worst season in Super rugby history.
The Johannesburg-based franchise has hit rock bottom. Andy Capostagno wonders if anyone believes things can improve.
Jacques Kallis and Mark Boucher have recovered from injury and will be available to the Warriors for the Standard Bank Domestic Pro20 Final on Friday.
Carlos Spencer is on the bench and Willem Stoltz returns in two of the seven changes for the Lions for their match against the Brumbies on Friday.
Dick Muir is set to ring in the changes for the Lions’ match against the Brumbies, with Deon van Rensburg and Carlos Spencer ruled out.
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/ 20 February 2010
In a Super 14 match at Coca-Cola Park that bordered on the bizarre, the Lions came back from a 72-37 deficit to grab a second bonus point.
Springbok wing Bryan Habana will be a notable absentee when the Bulls launch their defence of the Super 14 title on Friday.
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/ 27 October 2009
The domestic limited overs season opens with a bang at the Wanderers on Wednesday when the Lions and the Cape Cobras meet in the first MTN40 match.
British and Irish Lions coach Ian McGeechan said the 74-10 thrashing of the Gauteng Lions at Ellis Park on Wednesday had been more than he expected.
The Golden Lions sacked coach Eugene ”Loffie” Eloff on Wednesday only a week before the team meets the British and Irish Lions.
Tradition looms large whenever a British and Irish Lions team is chosen. The last squad of the “Amateur Lions” was announced in 1993.
South Africa coach Peter de Villiers can’t wait to pick apart a British and Irish Lions squad he said he largely expected on Tuesday.
Former Springbok wing and South African Player of the Year Ashwin Willemse on Monday announced his retirement from rugby with immediate effect.
Lions coach Leon Boshoff was fired on Wednesday after a disciplinary hearing found him guilty of verbally abusing his players.
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/ 10 October 2008
A Kruger National Park ranger was attacked and mauled by a lion on Friday, the park said.
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/ 10 October 2008
”In some competitions you get a prize for that,” said a rueful John Plumtree. The Sharks had just finished at the top of top of the Currie Cup log.
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/ 28 September 2008
The Sharks beat the Lions 34-20 in a vital Currie Cup match in Johannesburg on Saturday thanks to two huge blunders by Earl Rose.
The Sharks held on for a hard-fought 16-11 win over the Lions in a crucial Absa Currie Cup match at the Absa Stadium on Saturday.
The wide-eyed lion cub inched slowly to the edge of the wooden crate. He stared around him, then with a growl from the older cub behind him, he leapt out onto the grass.
The Stormers beat the Lions 22-13 after a late rally in a thrilling, if not always good, Super 14 match at Ellis Park on Saturday. However, their inability to score five tries meant that only one of either the Stormers or the Sharks, who were playing the Chiefs later on Saturday, could still make the semifinals.
The Stormers are planning to hit the Lions’ defence hard where it is likely to hurt most in Saturday’s Super 14 clash at Ellis Park. The fragile Lions’ defence have leaked 41 tries this season, and after 12 matches they have conceded a staggering 345 points — almost 29 points per game.
Brendon McCullum led a New Zealand fightback against England with a run-a-ball 97 to help his side to 208-6 when bad light ended the first day’s play of the first Test at Lord’s on Thursday. But three runs short of what would have been the wicket-keeper’s third Test hundred, McCullum was bowled by a quicker delivery from left-arm spinner Monty Panesar.
Coaching guru Ian McGeechan has promised to restore the traditional spirit of the British and Irish Lions when he takes them on tour to South Africa next year. The 61-year-old, appointed on Wednesday as Lions coach for the fourth time, promised lessons would be learned from the ill-fated 2005 tour, when the Lions were thrashed 3-0 in a Test series by New Zealand.
Ian McGeechan, the man who led the British and Irish Lions to their monumental series victory over South Africa in 1997, has been handed the chance to repeat the achievement against the world champions in 2009. As was widely expected, the vastly experienced coach was unveiled on Wednesday as the head coach for the three-Test, 10-match tour.
”Good golly, it’s Ollie,” exclaimed one excited Stormers supporter on arrival at Monday’s training session in Durbanville. There he was, Ollie le Roux, the 128kg prop who had finally appeared after much speculation in the past week that he would be joining the Stormers. ”He’s been running like a spring chicken,” said Frikkie Erasmus, the Stormers media manager.
Australia’s Brumbies will not to be sidetracked by history or the widely acclaimed Stormers injuries in the run-up to Saturday’s make-or-break Super 14 clash at Newlands. The history books will show that the last time the Brumbies lost at Newlands was in 1998, and apart from one draw in 2006, they’ve always defeated the Stormers in the Mother City in a decade of clashes.
The Blue Bulls guaranteed themselves a place in the semifinals of the Vodacom Cup with their 51-7 victory over the Lions at Loftus on Friday. The Bulls scored a total of seven tries, five of which came in the first half, and led 36-7 at the interval. The hosts were first to draw blood with a Braam Gerber try in the first minute, followed by a Burton Francis penalty in the eighth minute.