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Janse van Rensburg snatches victory for the Lions

Rohan Janse van Rensburg scores for Lions

The Lions, last season’s runners-up, made a winning start to the 2017 Super Rugby season with a hard-fought 28-25 victory over the Cheetahs in Bloemfontein.

Rohan Janse van Rensburg’s 77th-minute try proved decisive for the visitors as they edged in front at the crucial moment to cap a thrilling second half.

The opening 40 minutes had been a battle of the boot between Elton Jantjies and Fred Zeilinga, the pair kicking two penalties apiece to make 6-6 at the break.

After the restart the game opened up, with Janse van Rensburg’s second score of the game ensuring four points for the Lions, while the Cheetahs had to settle for a losing bonus point.

Santiago Iglesias and Gonzalo Bertranou inspired Jaguares to a 39-26 win over the Southern Kings, the Argentine franchise holding on in the closing stages to snatch an opening weekend victory.

Jaguares had led 39-12 with 13 minutes to go but Makazole Mapimpi and Luzuko Vulindlu – plus conversions from Lionel Cronje – ensured a nail-biting finale.

It was very different for the Stormers, though, as they took control of their clash with the Bulls with a first-half blitz.

The hosts clocked up 24 points before half-time at Newlands, and, although Bulls mounted a late fightback, it was too much of a deficit to overcome – the visitors not even able to claim a losing bonus.

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JW 20 minutes ago
New Zealanders may not understand, but in France Test rugby is the 'B movie'

But he was wrong, he had to take back what he said. But maybe this only happened because he came out and was honest with his initial plans?


He’s simply in a position where he should be far more professional.


I don’t really follow much media, especially SM, but again, I’ve not seen anyone complaining. Plenty of ridicule and pointing out things like it being disrespectful to the game, but as far as the English language goes, that’s not complaining. Nick Bishop for instance hasn’t been complaining, he’s simply saying Galthie made a bad decision for France’s prospects (which when the common reply is ‘thats how it is’).


Complaining would be views expressing that the FFR should have put the tour back a week so that all T14 finalists could attend. Complaining would be saying they’ve been robbed of seeing the worlds best stars. Complaining would be saying players can simply take extra weeks off from T14. I’ve only seen advice and suggestions that these are things France need to look-at-for-the-future.


Basically I tried to communicate with French fans because they don’t understand what’s being communicated. ALL reactions I have seen shared here by French supports have all seemed way over the top compared what I’ve seen expressed about this tour.

the players are expected to play in too many matches, for too many minutes, and need more rest and recovery time.

This is the message I have been sharing. So something needs to happen, whether thats France pull out of more Internationals or rest players from more domestic games, who knows, but I also don’t think what they have now is working. It’s obviously much better than 3-4 years ago, but they appear to want to work even harder at it like you say. Personally I’ve only seen LNR be reasonable, I hear much less of their other internationals being denied/influenced not to play, so I imagine that they will give even further (as I can’t really see France pulling out the other international windows as well).

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JW 1 hour ago
'The Wallabies only have themselves to blame': How the Lions sunk Australia in Melbourne

Cameron Woki picked at the base of a ruck and jumped/dived over. That would clearly now be penalised.

But the Sheehan try is different to my eye. It starts from a tap penalty, he drives forward, the two WB defenders go low for a tackle in the assumption Sheehan will go to ground. He does not, but seeing the hole now left dives through it. In this case surely there is zero danger there.

World Rugby’s terminology/interpretation recently (shared again after this) is that it’s ok to hurdle/dive (that includes over, say a ruck, which we have seen this many times even in this years SR) to score a try, but it’s not (OK) to avoid a tackle. I can’t remember the one you describe (which may have been where their clarification came from) but that would sound OK. Sheehan definitely was playing the rope-a-dope and dived to avoid being tackled (can’t call it tackled really, just blocked/stopped lol), so shouldn’t have been awarded (I wasn’t aware of this last definition so just thought it was a very smart move). Was it premeditated? I’m not sure, but he could definitely have collected someones head if that was the case. And I guess even if he saw the space, I guess it’s not something they can allow as others might try it and get it terribly wrong?


Well summed up Miz. I have been thinking the whole situation of events that lead to this type of sneaky move is the problem, particularly as it relates to the difficulty and effort defenders now go to stop such situations (like say Slippers try), where players go extremely low to drive from meters out (and in most cases plays just trying to dive under). It’s also ugly business seeing attempt after attempt to go in under the tacklers, especially with them not really being able to perform a ‘tackle’ at all. I would simply give the defenders their goal line. All they need is some part of the body on or behind, and this will stop the play (being the fuel to this fire) from being attempted I reckon.

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