Emirates Lions vs Cell C Sharks

OFFICIAL MATCH PROGRAMME

EMIRATES LIONS vs Cell C Sharks

Saturday 2 July 2016 17:10

CONTENTS PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

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COLLAGE: SA VS IRELAND, EMIRATES AIRLINE PARK

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VODACOM MESSAGE

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LIONS WHO HAVE SHARKS TIES

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SUPER RUGBY TEAMS 14 CURRIE CUP TEAMS

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SCHOOL TEAMS 19 COLLAGE: JACO KRIEL, 50TH SUPER RUGBY GAME

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FIXTURES AND RESULTS 23

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE • 5 www.lionsrugby.co.za

WELCOME TO EMIRATES AIRLINE PARK, HOME OF THE EMIRATES LIONS TODAY WE WELCOME the Sharks to our home turf and we look forward to a clash which has always offered a fastpaced game with much action in the past, and we wait in anticipation to see what these two teams will produce tonight.

A big thank you is extended to Vodacom for making this exciting competition possible.

A heartfelt thank you to each and every sponsor and partner for your support and especially thank you to Emirates, our team sponsor. It is an honour and privilege to have you backing us.Your support, on all levels, is invaluable and we are proud to have you as not only our team sponsor but our partner and friend.

Today we will for the first time this season have two schools from outside

the GLRU borders in action. HTS Middelburg and Ermelo face one another in the Beeld Trophy (Noordvaal) competition.

I want to laud our CEO Rudolf Straeuli for this initiative which will see school boy rugby in all our Vodacom Super Rugby curtain raisers.

Good luck to coach Johan Ackermann and captain Warren Whiteley for this tough encounter.

Please remember to visit our website www.lionsrugby.co.za for all your Lions rugby news.

Enjoy the day with us.

Kevin de Klerk.

President: GLRU

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LIONS WHO HAVE SHARKS TIES • 11 www.lionsrugby.co.za

LIONS WHO HAVE SHARKS TIES IT HAPPENED IN the pre-professional era, and it has escalated since 1996 that players change provincial allegiance.

In the old days the moves were more lucrative (full-time) job offers, today they change for more lucrative contracts Be that as it may, there is an interesting number of management and players in the present Lions camp that have ties with Sharks rugby.

Kevin de Klerk, the president of the GLRU and a really famous Springbok, played for the former Natal, in 1979, albeit in only one match in which he captained the Banana Boys as Natal were called in those days.

In later years Straeuli coached the Sharks to two Currie Cup finals in two years (in 2000 when he coached only the Currie Cup side and in 2001), also taking the side to the final of the then Super 12 competition in 2001. After his stint as Springbok coach he was appointed as the Sharks commercial manager at the end of 2005 before moving to the GLRU at the end of 2013.

Ironically Straeuli’s last game for the Golden Lions was in the 1996 Currie Cup final against the Sharks.

But, as Kevin admits, the lure of Transvaal and Transvaal rugby brought him back to Johannesburg post haste!

Johan Ackermann, the Lions head coach, played for the Sharks in both Currie Cup and Super Rugby matches from 2004-2008, his playing years in Durban overlapping to some extent with Straeuli when he was commercial manager.

Rudolf Straeuli, the Lions CEO, was one of the 11 Transvaal players in the Springbok squad that won the 1995 World Cup at Ellis Park, now Emirates Airline Park.

Swys de Bruin, assistant coach at the Lions, began his professional rugby career at the Sharks in 1996, where he was appointed as the coaching coordinator. In 1997 he steered the Sharks

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U21s to national success as head coach.

He was also the head coach of the Wildebeest side in 1998.

De Bruin was then head coach at Griquas from 1999 to 2003 and coached the SA U21 team in 2001. He was involved in the Sharks Academy in 2004, when he was appointed head coach. He also assisted the Sharks senior squad as Super XV skills coach during this time and coached the Sharks XV, Sharks U21 and Sharks U19 sides between 2005 and 2011. In 2012, De Bruin worked as the high performance coach at the Sharks.

THE PLAYERS Warren Whiteley was in the Sharks Super and Currie Cup squad in 2008/’09 but never represented them, although he did play for Sharks age group teams and the Wildebeest. He matriculated from Glenwood High after attending Laerskool Dirkie Uys in Durban (his mother is Afrikaans speaking).

(Just to accentuate the ‘bond’ between the two rugby unions, Whiteley was coaxed over to the Lions by former Sharks coach Dick Muir who was then head coach of the Lions!)

Julian Redelinghuys, from Monument Hoërskool, played for the Golden Lions and SA Schools sides in 2006 and 2007.

In the following five years in Durban he played for the SA U20 team and also represented the Sharks at Currie Cup and Vodacom Cup level but never played for the Super Rugby team although being

in the wider group. He moved back to the Lions in 2013, and the rest is history.

Lionel Mapoe represent the Junior Springboks and the Blitzboks and was on the brink of Springbok selection in 2009. He left the Cheetahs after a contractual dispute and signed a contract with the Sharks in May 2010, but because of injuries and the continued contract controversy never represent the Durban franchise.

Ross Cronje, who was schooled at Michaelhouse where Springboks Pat Lambie and Ruan Combrinck were contemporaries, played for the Sharks at both Currie Cup and Super Rugby level and represented the Junior Springboks in 2009. He moved to the Lions in 2012.

Ruan Combrinck, who played his first two test matches in the last fortnight, never played for the Sharks. However, he is a born and bred KwaZulu-Natalian. He attended Laerskool Lucas Maree in Vryheid where he was born and then Michaelhouse.

Thereafter he played for the Maties in the Varsity Cup and also Western Province without making a real breakthrough He moved to the Lions in 2012.

Andries Coetzee, who only made his return for the Golden Lions after injury in a Currie Cup qualifier last weekend, played for the Sharks on loan in 2013 when the Lions were out of the Super Rugby competition for which they requalified in 2014. (Lions Springbok Franco van der Merwe and veteran flank Derick Minnie were also Sharks loan players in 2013).

EMIRATES LIONS

15 Andries Coetzee 14 Ruan Combrinck 13 Lionel Mapoe 12 Rohan Janse van Rensburg 11 Courtnall Skosan 10 Elton Jantjies 9 Faf de Klerk 8 Ruan Ackermann 7 Warwick Tecklenburg 6 Jaco Kriel (capt.)

5 Franco Mostert 4 Andries Ferreira 3 Julian Redelinghuys 2 Malcolm Marx 1 Dylon Smith

Replacements:

16 Armand van der Merwe 17 Corné Fourie 18 Jacques van Rooyen 19 Lourens Erasmus 20 Cyle Brink 21 Ross Cronjé 22 Howard Mnisi 23 Sylvian Mahuza Coaches: Johan Ackermann (Head Coach) Swys de Bruin (Assistant Coach) JP Ferreira (Assistant Coach) 2 JULY 2016 Referee: Jaco Peyper

AR1: Quinton Immelman

CELL C SHARKS

15 Odwa Ndungane 14 JP Pietersen 13 Paul Jordaan 12 Andre Esterhuizen 11 Lwazi Mvovo 10 Garth April 9 Michael Claassens 8 Philip van der Walt 7 Jean-Luc du Preez 6 Keegan Daniel 5 Stephan Lewies 4 Etienne Oosthuizen 3 Lourens Adriaanse 2 Franco Marais 1 Tendai Mtawarira (capt.)

Replacements:

16 Chiliboy Ralepelle 17 Thomas du Toit 18 Coenie Oosthuizen 19 Ruan Botha 20 Lubabalo Mtembu 21 Stefan Ungerer 22 Rhyno Smith 23 Sibusiso Sithole Director of Rugby: Gary Gold Team manager: Trevor Barnes

KICK-OFF: 17:10 AR2: Pro Legoete

TMO Johan Greeff

CURRIE CUP QUALIFIER KICK-OFF: 14:15 XEROX GOLDEN LIONS

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JW Bell / Ashlon Davids Koch Marx Stokkies Hanekom Jacques Nel Anthonie Volmink Marnitz Boshoff Dillon Smit Ruaan Lerm (capt) Fabian Booysen Stephan De Wit Robert Kruger Bobby De Wee Pieter Scholtz Ramone Samuels Clinton Theron

DOWN T   OUCH GRIFFONS

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Selvyn Davids Vuyo Mbotho Joubert Engelbrecht (capt.)

Japie Nel Warren Williams Tertius Maarman Boela Abrahams De Wet Kruger Boela Venter Thato Mavundla Gavin Annandale Wayne Ludick Heinrich Roelofs Kwezi Mkafu Danie van der Merwe.

REPLACEMENTS: 16 Pieter Jansen 17 Henco Smit 18 MB Lusaseni 19 Victor Sekekete 20 Ricky Schroeder 21 Jarryd Sage 22 Ashlon Davids/JW Bell

REPLACEMENTS: 16 Hennie Venter 17 Gerard Baard 18 Vincent Maruping 19 Willmar Groenewald 20 Louis Venter 21 Colin Herbert 22 Norman Nelson

Coaches: Bafana Nhleko, Herkie Kruger, Wessel Roux

Coaches: Oersond Gorgonzola, Eric Herbert

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HOËRSKOOL ERMELO

15 RYAN CLOETE 14 JAPIE KLEYNHANS 13 ZANDER JOUBERT 12 BOET HEYL 11 WALDO CONRADIE 10 RIEKERT BARNARD 9 UYS DU PREEZ 8 RUVAAN MULLER 7 HENCO VAN HEERDEN 6 JC PRETORIUS 5 LOUIS DU PREEZ 4 TIAAN DE BEER 3 TIAAN ESPAG 2 RUBEN CROSS 1 ARMANDO LUBBE

15 RUAN GROBLER 14 GIFT NGWENYA 13 HANS GREYLING 12 HENKO LOUW 11 ARNO OOSTHUIZEN 10 JANNIE ELOFF 9 STEFAN VAN DER MERWE 8 RUAN SMIT 7 QINISO HABILE 6 MARUIS KLOPPER 5 BRANDON VAN ECK 4 VUSI MKOHOZA 3 IVAN VILANHULO 2 ERNST DE WAAL 1 DANIEL CELLIERS

16 DUART WILLEMSE 17 BRYAN JOVNER 18 HEINRICH CRONJE 19 MARNUS BOTHA 20 MARCO KOCH 21 PG SLABBER 22 ANDRE VAN DER MERWE 23LEON ETSEBETH

16 CHRIS DELPORT 17 FERDI MARTINS 18 NICO KOTZE 19 PHILILANI MOLATIA 20 JEAN-JACQUES J VAN RENSBURG 21 NICOLUS DE JAGER 22 CELVIN PRETORUIS HOOFAFRIGTER: COBUS VAN WYK

AFRIGTERS: COENIE NOLTE, SAKKIE MEYER www.lionsrugby.co.za

Jaco Kriel, 50th Super Rugby game

Photos by Deon van der Merwe Photos by Deon van der Merwe.

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Sunwolves vs Emirates Lions 13–26

Tokyo

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Chiefs vs Emirates Lions 32–36 Highlanders vs Emirates Lions 34–15 Emirates Lions vs Toyota Cheetahs 39–22

Hamilton Dunedin Emirates Airline Park

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Emirates Lions vs BNZ Crusaders 37–43 Sharks vs Emirates Lions 9-24 Emirates Lions vs DHL Stormers 29–22 Southern Kings vs Emirates Lions 10–45 Emirates Lions vs Hurricanes 17–50

Emirates Airline Park Kings Park Emirates Airline Park Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Emirates Airline Park

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Emirates Lions vs Blues 43-5 Emirates Lions vs Jaguares 56-20 Vodacom Bulls vs Emirates Lions 24-52

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Emirates Lions vs Sharks

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