How can they return to something if they never went away from it?
What they really need to return to is physicality, defensive starch, and technical competence at the fundamentals. They've been away from that for a few years now.
Only 6 Lions players were in the team that whitewashed the Tahs 29-0 in 2018. The 7th in the squad, Dillon Smit, is not on tour
The Tahs have 11 players in their squad that played in the 2018 game
Lions: 15 Andries Coetzee, 14 Tyrone Green, 13 Manuel Rass, 12 Dan Kriel, 11 Jamba Ulengo, 10 Elton Jantjies (captain), 9 Andre Warner, 8 Len Massyn, 7 Vincent Tshituka, 6 Marnus Schoeman, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Ruben Schoeman, 3 Carlu Sadie, 2 Jan-Henning Campher, 1 Dylan Smith
Substitutes: 16 Pieter Jansen, 17 Sti Sithole, 18 Frans van Wyk, 19 Willem Alberts, 20 Wilhelm van der Sluys, 21 Hacjivah Dayimani, 22 Morne van den Berg, 23 Wandisile Simelane
Changes from the Stormers game:
Ulengo in for Skosan (not in match 23)
Warner in for van den Berg
Sadie in for du Plessis (not in match 23)
Campher in for Jansen
Bringing in Campher and Sadie should strengthen the scrums but Campher's poor lineout skills are a worry
ethan
Guest
How can they return to something if they never went away from it? What they really need to return to is physicality, defensive starch, and technical competence at the fundamentals. They've been away from that for a few years now.
Baylion
Roar Rookie
Only 6 Lions players were in the team that whitewashed the Tahs 29-0 in 2018. The 7th in the squad, Dillon Smit, is not on tour The Tahs have 11 players in their squad that played in the 2018 game
Baylion
Roar Rookie
Lions: 15 Andries Coetzee, 14 Tyrone Green, 13 Manuel Rass, 12 Dan Kriel, 11 Jamba Ulengo, 10 Elton Jantjies (captain), 9 Andre Warner, 8 Len Massyn, 7 Vincent Tshituka, 6 Marnus Schoeman, 5 Marvin Orie, 4 Ruben Schoeman, 3 Carlu Sadie, 2 Jan-Henning Campher, 1 Dylan Smith Substitutes: 16 Pieter Jansen, 17 Sti Sithole, 18 Frans van Wyk, 19 Willem Alberts, 20 Wilhelm van der Sluys, 21 Hacjivah Dayimani, 22 Morne van den Berg, 23 Wandisile Simelane Changes from the Stormers game: Ulengo in for Skosan (not in match 23) Warner in for van den Berg Sadie in for du Plessis (not in match 23) Campher in for Jansen Bringing in Campher and Sadie should strengthen the scrums but Campher's poor lineout skills are a worry
Rusty
Roar Guru
Just win - fans will appreciate that a bit more
Cadfael
Roar Guru
Why not try winning rugby.
Jimbo81
Roar Rookie
Why not just win?
PeterK
Roar Guru
so what have they been trying to do so far then? headless , heedless, rudderless and leaderless comes to mind or more simply put they have NFI
freddieeffer
Roar Rookie
Thanks for the tip Jake... we all now know what the Tahs won't be delivering this match!
Gary
Guest
OH FFS !! :crying: