LRZ looking to return the favour. Lions get the penalty outside the 22 and opt for the lineout. Crucial this, 5m minutes before oranges. Lions battering away, but no joy for 3 minutes. Eventually held up and a scrum. Excellent defence by the BOK-A, but taking a toll with the fabulous Dweba off and replaced by Marx.
Faf gets a yellow for a no arm tackle. Van Staden follows him for repeated infringements. Lions have it down! Wynn Jones! Hmm. Initially short. Double movement? Yip! Great defence!
Cab Sav it is then. Good first 25-30 minutes from the BOK-A, but the Lions really should have scored in the last few minutes, however many we had on the pitch. Not clever. They’ll have to come out firing early on to make that numerical advantage count.
Supersport studio also wondering about not taking the scrum.
Lions finding good space now. Penalty count 12-5 in their favour. About 7 of those have been battering from 5m out and finally it works. 17-10 and game on!
Harris is a nice 13. But should have perhaps fixed the defender better there. Crappy maul by SA there, butcwell held up by the Lions. Should have used it earlier.
Ovally Balls 
Lovely offload from Itoje to Curry and a fabulous break! Lose it though and the Boks clear it after a bit of ping pong.
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It’s Kolbe, of course. But he just made Harris look like an amateur.
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KOLBEEEEEEEEE!!!! And Am-ped for Am!
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It was nice of Daly to kick the ball straight to Kolbe.
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Lovely try by SAA. Bastards, especially Kolbe.
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Kolbe, I could watch that all day
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hmm….interesting mix of high quality and stupid/petty stuff from SA
Lions just need to keep cool.
Cool players get selected
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Etzebeth absolutely smashed Farrell, a quarter of second late.
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Conscious that we’ve only got one more replacement in the backs….
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That was a cute play, round the front of the lineout.
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LRZ looking to return the favour. Lions get the penalty outside the 22 and opt for the lineout. Crucial this, 5m minutes before oranges. Lions battering away, but no joy for 3 minutes. Eventually held up and a scrum. Excellent defence by the BOK-A, but taking a toll with the fabulous Dweba off and replaced by Marx.
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Not sure what Faf was trying there.
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Bad from Faff
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Yellow for Faf. Kolbe to scrummie, please.
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Mystified by ‘no head contact’.
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If that is not head to head I’m a banana
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@Thaum – they were looking at contact with Jones(?) and seemingly ignored Navidi.
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SA-A down to 13.
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The clock in the screen hasn’t stopped during that check. Is that an official clock? Cos it’d run the sin bin time down.
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Well, well. At least we’re playing against 13 for most of the next 10 mins.
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Faf gets a yellow for a no arm tackle. Van Staden follows him for repeated infringements. Lions have it down! Wynn Jones! Hmm. Initially short. Double movement? Yip! Great defence!
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Lions with a lot of work to do. Not sure who’s making the big decisions at the moment. They’re not doing it very well.
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Lions will be ok provide they keep their shape across the pitch – SA are trying to disrupt that, by fair means or foul.
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That is dreadful from the Lions, down to 13 v 15, you take ascrum, either you score directly from it or you get acres of space out wide.
Shite decision making
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My wine has run out. Do I go and get another bottle or stay sober and offer objective views?
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Always go with pished as the option, DB
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Poor, Poor planning deebee
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I have a fridge full of beer
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Ticht – AWJ wouldn’t have made that mistake
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How long have you been waiting to say that, Chimpie?
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Cab Sav it is then. Good first 25-30 minutes from the BOK-A, but the Lions really should have scored in the last few minutes, however many we had on the pitch. Not clever. They’ll have to come out firing early on to make that numerical advantage count.
Supersport studio also wondering about not taking the scrum.
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World Cup Semi-Final, 15 on each side and Wales took the scrum and scored on Nkosi’s side as well.
The Lions need to play a bit wider but can’t get quick enough ball to do so. Will be good if they can work it out.
SA A can make as many subs as they want now. Doesn’t matter too much if they win the game from here they’ve already done enough.
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Perhaps Gats secretly rates his scrum but doesnt want to over-declare it
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Murray has not been impressive today, particularly as he’s captain. Not sure who I’d prefer at SH tho.
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Other than Cooney, obvs.
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Thaum, I honestly feel Price has been the best 9 so far, trying my best to take the blue goggles off
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Ticht, quite possibly.
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Great start by the Lions! Needless crosskick though. You’ve got 2 extra players and the defence scrambled. Two more phases and you’re over!
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Just heard du Toit’s name pronounced. I’d been pronouncing it French way, ‘of the roof’.
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Second good intervention from Harris
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At last!
Agree with the needless cross-kick.
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Lions finding good space now. Penalty count 12-5 in their favour. About 7 of those have been battering from 5m out and finally it works. 17-10 and game on!
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Statistically that must be the most-scored, but against 13 it still looks a stupid option to me, even after the score
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Poor play by the Lions as Daly tackled into touch on a turnover.
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Wynn Jones goingvoff. Vunipola needs a huge game here after the last performance.
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Harris is a nice 13. But should have perhaps fixed the defender better there. Crappy maul by SA there, butcwell held up by the Lions. Should have used it earlier.
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Why is Faf on the pitch?
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Oh, the graphic hadn’t updated. Faf out the bin.
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Faf back, panic over.
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Harris stronger in the tackle than Lawes.
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