Lions Match Programme April

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EMIRATES LIONS vs DHL Stormers

Saturday 16 April 2016 19:15

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CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM KEVIN DE KLERK, GLRU’S PRESIDENT

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VODACOM MESSAGE

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MANIE SE ‘HART WAS NOG ALTYD GROTER AS SY SIZE’

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XEROX GOLDEN LIONS – 2016 CURRIE CUP FIXTURES

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EMIRATES LIONS VS DHL STORMERS

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CURTAIN RAISER: SCHOOLS 17 REPAIRS DONE ON EMIRATES AIRLINE PARK PITCH

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FIXTURES

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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 DHL Stormers 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 also as our partner and friend.

Today we will have one of our local schools, Jeppe High School for Boys, in action against Hoërskool Ben Vorster from Tzaneen in the curtain raiser.

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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MANIE REYNEKE • 10

MANIE SE ‘HART WAS NOG ALTYD GROTER AS SY SIZE’ Deur André Bester DIE IDEE AGTER KYKNET se dramareeks, ‘Getroud met Rugby’, kon net sowel uit Manie Reyneke se eie draaiboek gekom het.

Reyneke, die voormalige hoof uitvoerende beampte van die Goue Leeus Rugby-unie (GLRU), se betrokkenheid by rugby in dié unie

het 36 jaar gelede as speler begin toe hy die destydse Transvaal op skoleen o.20-vlak verteenwoordig het.

Dié langtermynverhouding kan egter kwalik as maatstaf vir sy passie vir die sport gebruik word.

Ná Reyneke van Union na Alberton Rugbyklub verskuif het, gebeur

MANIE REYNEKE • 11 www.lionsrugby.co.za

dit toe dat een van die klub se belangrikste wedstryde op een van Reyneke se belangrikste dae val: sy troudag. Hoegemaak?

Soos dit ’n haker betaam (hulle is mos eiesoortige karakters), besluit Reyneke die liefde sal seëvier en die wedstryd sal voortgaan. Skaars was die strop om sy nek gesit of hy is af veld toe om sy eerste wedstryd as getroude man te speel. Alberton wen toe en Reyneke gaan sluit hom aan by sy gaste by die bruiloffunksie.

Dié wen beteken toe dat Alberton die volgende Woensdag in ’n eindstryd moes speel met sy wittebrood wat eers kon geskied ná sy verpligtinge op die veld afgehandel is. Die troukoek was, seker heel voorspelbaar ... ’n rugbybal.

Met sy spelersloopbaan afgehandel het Manie by Alberton se bestuur betrokke geraak. Hy is sedert 1994 lid van die GLRU se bestuursraad en is in 2001 tot voorsitter van dié raad verkies.

In Augustus 2007 is hy as hoof uitvoerende beampte van die GLRU aangestel.

Reyneke het die leisels oorgeneem in sekerlik een van die moeilikste tye in die unie se geskiedenis, maar dit was ’n uitdaging wat hy nie geskroom het om aan te vat nie. Hoe seg groot oom Kevin de Klerk, president van die GLRU: “Manie het nog altyd meer hart as size gehad.”

Sy mees gekoesterde rugbyherinneringe was vir hom sy dae as speler by Alberton. “Dit was ’n groot eer en voorreg om weekliks langs spelers soos Kevin (de Klerk) te speel. En die samesyn tussen die spelers, dis een aspek wat ek baie mis. Dis ’n jammerte dat dit in die professionele era verlore gegaan het.”

Reyneke het in 1996 die eerste keer die grootbaas van Alberton geword en die pos vir vyf jaar beklee voor hy die klub se president geword het totdat hy Leeus toe is.

Dit is heel gepas dat die GLRU se besluit om die vyf tuiswedstryde in die kwalifiserende ronde van die Curriebeker op die velde van klubs te speel, op 23 April by Alberton afskop. En dis ook nie ’n hierjy-wedstryd nie, want dit is die buurspan van Pretoria, die Blou Bulle, wat kom besoek aflê.

2016 CURRIE CUP FICTURES • 13 www.lionsrugby.co.za

XEROX GOLDEN LIONS 2016 QUALIFYING FIXTURES The 2016 Currie Cup series will consist of nine teams in the Premier Division and six in the First Division with the competition being played from August to October.

The six unions with franchise (Super Rugby) teams automatically qualify for the Premier Division. They will

be joined by the three top sides from non-franchise unions from the qualifying rounds that are already underway.

The Golden Lions fixtures in the Qualifying Round (15 teams, with the Welwichias from Namibia also taking part):

APRIL 9 vs Border (Emirates Airline Park) Lost 23-27 16 vs Welwitchias (away) 23 vs Blue Bulls (Alberton Rugby Club) 30 vs Western Province (away) MAY 7 vs Free State Cheetahs (Diggers Rugby Club) 21 vs Sharks XV (away) 28 vs EP Kings (Pirates Rugby Club) JUNE 4 vs Pumas (away) 11 vs Griquas (Jhb Police Rugby Club) 18 vs Leopards (away) JULY 2 vs Griffons (Emirates Airline Park) 9 vs Valke (away) 16 vs Eagles (Hoërskool Roodepoort) 23 vs Boland (away)

EMIRATES LIONS

15 Jaco van der Walt 14 Ruan Combrinck 13 Lionel Mapoe 12 Rohan Janse van Rensburg 11 Courtnall Skosan 10 Elton Jantjies 9 Ross Cronje 8 Warren Whiteley (captain) 7 Warwick Tecklenburg 6 Jaco Kriel 5 Franco Mostert 4 Andries Ferreira 3 Julian Redelinghuys 2 Malcolm Marx 1 Dylan Smith Replacements:

16 Armand van der Merwe 17 Corne Fourie 18 Ruan Dreyer 19 Ruan Ackermann 20 Cyle Brink 21 Faf de Klerk 22 Howard Mnisi 23 Andries Coetzee Coaches: Johan Ackermann (Head Coach), Swys de Bruin (Assistant Coach), JP Ferreira (Assistant Coach) 16 APRIL 2016

Referee: Stuart Berry AR1: Lourens van der Mer

DHL STORMERS

15 Cheslin Kolbe 14 Kobus van Wyk   13 Johnny Kotze 12 Juan de Jongh (captain) 11 Leolin Zas 10 Jean-Luc du Plessis 9 Nic Groom 8 Schalk Burger 7 Sikhumbuzo Notshe 6 Nizaam Carr 5 Pieter-Steph du Toit 4 JD Schickerling 3 Vincent Koch 2 Bongi Mbonambi 1 JC Janse van Rensburg Replacements:

16 Mike Willemse 17 Oli Kebble 18 Frans Malherbe (co-captain) 19 Rynhardt Elstadt 20 Siya Kolisi 21 Louis Schreuder 22 Damian de Allende 23 Huw Jones Head coach: Robbie Fleck KICK-OFF: 19:15

rwe AR2: Cwengile Jadezweni TMO: Willie Vos

CURTAIN RAISER KICK-OFF: 16:30 JEPPE HIGH SCHOOL FOR BOYS 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Tyrone Green Moemisie Mosheledi Wandisile Similane Cameron Burke Mangaliso Ntimba Nathan Grove Dylan Wadeley Hacjivah Dayimane Duncan Tverdon Tebogo Ramodibe Gary Edwards Travis Cameron Douglas Cutter Nolo Naka Marc Harmieson

HOËRSKOOL BEN VORSTER 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Danny Mokhoabane Pule Molokomme Heini Ferreira Muzi Nyakane Rueben Ragolane Jonathan Viljoen Eduan Smit JJ Anker Stefan Engelbrecht Reuben Koekemoer Welmar Pieterse Shama Manzini Barend Lombard Bernard Vermaak Jannie Jordaan

REPLACEMENTS: 16 Joshua Harrison 17 Francois Meyer 18 Kegan Litchfield 19 Mpho Tjamela 20 Tumi Nameka 21 Thorne O’Connell 22 Kyle Grundling 23 James Msimango

REPLACEMENTS: 16 Frans Pohl 17 Tumi Mononyane 18 Ruben Jordaan 19 Franco Oberholzer 20 Pieter Haasbroek 21 Johan Buitendag 22 Shima Mphahlele

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Coaches: Hein Wagner (head coach), André Hay www.lionsrugby.co.za

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REPAIRS DONE ON EMIRATES AIRLINE PARK PITCH • 19

REPAIRS DONE ON EMIRATES AIRLINE PARK PITCH THE ‘EL NINO’ effect has proven to have an even more devastating effect in its wake in 2016 with weather systems being adversely impacted around the world and also in South Africa where maize output has dropped by 30%.

It has now also directly impacted on the current state of the pitch at Emirates Airline Park which has

seen break-up during scrummaging, rucks and malls since the first home Vodacom Super Rugby game against the Cheetahs on 19 March.

El Nino causes a warming in sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, and can lead to unusually heavy rains in some parts of the world and drought elsewhere. www.lionsrugby.co.za

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REPAIRS DONE ON EMIRATES AIRLINE PARK PITCH • 21 www.lionsrugby.co.za

Background on the pitch at Emirates Airline Park: This pitch is a sand-based growing medium to provide adequate drainage and good playing conditions during wet weather. It was constructed in 1996. The pitch is based on a two-grass system where a warm season grass is used in the summer and cool season grass is used in winter to provide a deep root system all year round.

“The El Nino effect has restricted grass growth and poor root establishment at the park,” explains Mike Erasmus, stadium manager at Emirates Airline Park.

In the game against the Crusaders two percent of the playing surface

was breaking up due to high temperatures in the week leading up to the game. As a result corrective steps had to be taken this week leading up to the Vodacom Super Rugby match against the Stormers on April 16.

Johan van Vuuren, the pitch expert at Emirates Airline Park and one of the leaders on pitch management in South Africa, headed up the corrective action project.

“This had to be done to ensure the safety of the players and to restrict injuries. We had to take these precautionary measures and while it will take three weeks to recover, the pitch will be ready for all the forthcoming fixtures including the Test in June,” Erasmus concluded.

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

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