OFFICIAL MATCH PROGRAMME

EMIRATES LIONS vs HURRICANES

Saturday 30 April 2016 17:05

CONTENTSMESSAGE FROM KEVIN DE KLERK, GLRU’S PRESIDENT 5

VODACOM MESSAGE 9

RAIDERS – ON COURSE FOR THE GOLD CUP 10

EMIRATES LIONS VS HURRICANES 14

CURTAIN RAISER: SCHOOLS 17

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FIXTURES 25

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TODAY WE WELCOME the Hurricanes to our home turf and we look forward to a clash which has always offered a fast-paced 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 again have a curtain raiser where two top school sides will entertain us: Hoërskool Kempton Park and Hoërskool Transvalia.

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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PLAYERS SCORING POINTS FOR KNOWLEDGE

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“Nothing will stop us!”

Those words by the president of Raiders Rugby Club, Derek Jardine, clearly indicate the club’s determination to qualify for the Gold Cup (formerly the Community Cup) for the third consecutive year.

“This is probably the strongest side we’ve had in years,” says Jardine. ”We have worked for this inclusion in the Gold Cup in the off-season and have

a good mix of experienced and young players with one goal: to play against the country’s best non-university sides.”

Raiders must finish the league as the GLRU’s highest-placed non-university club to qualify for the Gold Cup play-offs in August, which will decide the final two places in the 20-team tournament. The Gold Cup kicks off on Saturday, September 10.

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RAIDERS ON COURSE FOR THE GOLD CUP By Piet Ebersohn and Wim van der Berg

RAIDERS ON COURSE FOR THE GOLD CUP

They strengthened their hopes of qualifying for this year’s Gold Cup international championship for non-university clubs with a thrilling 28-22 victory over Wanderers at the Bill Jardine Stadium two weeks ago and followed it with a one-point loss against UJ last week in a result determined by Raiders’ last minute missed conversion kick.

The Raiders Rugby Club was born out of a proud tradition of rugby, with a rich history and origins stretching back over a 100 years. The club’s experiences during the first decade of democracy has mirrored that of the country, as it worked very hard to build a culture of excellence and a home for rugby players truly representative of South Africa.

Raiders are the only pre-unity club from the former Transvaal Independent Rugby Union (Tirfu) – and a special club they are indeed. They draw their approximate senior membership of 250 from several of the previously disadvantaged clubs and little-known disadvantaged areas such as Riverlea, Westbury, Bosmont, Eldorado Park, Ennerdale, Noordgesig

and also Soweto areas such as Mapetla, Phiri, Jabulani, Chiawelo and Protea, among others, and also from outlying areas such as Alberton, Roodepoort, Meyerton, Newlands, Turffontein and Pretoria.

They have continually strived to reflect the demographics of the South African society since rugby unity came about in 1992 – and on a regular basis Raiders put a team onto the field made up of whites, coloured, Indian and black players.

This makes Raiders one of a handful of fully non-racial premier league clubs in South Africa which is reflected in the many people with blue-chip credentials who have been associated with the club over the last two decades, including Springboks Conrad Jantjes, Gcobani Bobo and Ashwin Willemse. Some of the Lions/Cats/Vodacom Cup players include Enrico Januarie, Baksteen Nel, Jaco Booysen, Ali Mhlanga, John Daniels and George Makwena.

The club, which places a premium on the integration of educational and life skills initiatives for athletes from disadvantaged communities, is very much involved with its

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own development programme for youngsters to spread the rugby gospel and provide a feeder system to ensure the club’s sustained success.

Raiders play their rugby from the Bill Jardine Stadium, named after the legendary late Bill Jardine. The stadium is “home” to a number of high schools and primary schools,

and it has an own junior club section.

Raiders openly pronounce that their involvement in youth rugby is motivated by the club’s vision to facilitate and develop rugby in their surrounding communities to ensure that the youth choose sport and education as alternatives to crime and drugs.

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EMIRATES LIONS

30 APRIL 2016

15 Jaco van der Walt14 Ruan Combrinck

13 Lionel Mapoe12 Howard Mnisi

11 Courtnall Skosan10 Elton Jantjies 9 Faf de Klerk

8 Warren Whiteley (captain)7 Warwick Tecklenburg

6 Jaco Kriel5 Franco Mostert4 Andries Ferreira3 Pieter Scholtz

2 Armand van der Merwe1 Dylan Smith

Replacements: 16 Ramone Samuels

17 Corné Fourie18 Jacques van Rooyen

19 Ruan Ackermann20 Cyle Brink

21 Ross Cronje22 JW Bell

23 Rohan Janse van Rensburg

Coaches: Coaches: Johan Ackermann (Head Coach)

Swys de Bruin (Assistant Coach)JP Ferreira (Assistant Coach)

Referee: Marius van der Westhuizen AR1: Jaco Pyper AR2: Ben Crouse TMO: Johan Greef

KICK-OFF: 17:05

HURRICANES

15 Jason Woodward14 Cory Jane

13 Matt Proctor12 Vince Aso

11 Julian Savea10 Beauden Barret

9 TJ Perenara8 Victor Vito

7 Ardie Savea6 Brad Shields

5 Michael Fatialofa4  Vaea Fifita

3 Jeffery Toomaga-Allen2 Dane Coles (captain)

1 Reg Goodes

Replacements:16 Motu Matu’u17 Chris Eves18 Loni Uhila

19 Blade Thomson20 Callum Gibbins

21 Jamison Gibson-Park22 James Marshall23 Willis Halaholo

Coaches: Chris Boyd (Head Coach)

John Plumtree (Assistant Coach)Jason Holland (Assistant Coach)

Referee: Marius van der Westhuizen AR1: Jaco Pyper AR2: Ben Crouse TMO: Johan Greef

HOËRSKOOL TRANSVALIA

15 Ian Herbst14 Chris Herbst13 Franco van Wyk12 Christian Coetzee11 Zander Venter10 Jp Pieterse9 Xander van der Walt8 Elrich Louw7 Jack Mills6 Arrie Buang5 Jacques Myburgh4 Jano Lessing3 Morné Stander2 Juandre Prinsloo1 Rejuan Harmse

REPLACEMENTS: 16 Tiaan Gouws17 Derrel Eveleigh18 Andre de Jager19 Kirlu Botha 20 Brendan Nortje21 Mpho Ntsane22 Kruan Saunders

Head coach: Jaco Kok

CURTAIN RAISERKICK-OFF: 14:30

HOËRSKOOL KEMPTON PARK

15 Arnandt Vorster14 Juandre Breytenbach13 Joubert du Plooy12 Francois Erasmus11 Henrique Marx10 Lionel Uekermann9 Francois Jordaan8 Johan Marais7 Xander Terblanche6 Marco Ueckermann5 Herman van Staden4 Francois Deysel3 Quentin van Niekerk2 Jaco Rossouw1 Armand Peru

REPLACEMENTS: 16 Reyno van Niekerk17 Corne Visagie18 Eben Brand19 Ewardt Steyn20 Lee Enslin21 Quinton Fincham22 Etienne Poultney23 Johnic Smith

Coaches: D Peyper, E Marx

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DIE ALMA MATERS van twee voormalige Springbok- en Transvaalse rugbykapteins, Francois Pienaar en Jannie Breedt, meet vandag op Emirates Airlinepark kragte in ‘n voorwedstryd vir die Super-wedstryd tussen die Lions en die Hurricanes.

Breedt is een van die drie Springbokke wat die Hoërskool Kemptonpark opgelewer het en Pienaar het Transvalia verteenwoordig voordat hy ’n jaar in Witbank op Patriot op skool was.

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Jannie Breedt

Deur André Bester

Breedt en Pienaar het diep spore in veral Transvaalrugby getrap. Breedt het tussen 1985-’92 in altesaam 118 wedstryde vir die Rooibontes gespeel en Pienaar tussen 1989-’96 in presies 100 wedstryde.

Breedt was in 102 wedstryde die kaptein van die Transvalers en Pienaar 77 keer.

Wahl Bartmann het tussen 1982 en ’98 altesaam 93 keer vir Transvaal gespeel en was 14 keer kaptein.Breedt het die Springbokke in twee toetse aangevoer. Dit was in 1989 teen die Wêreldspan. Pienaar het die Bokke in al 29 sy toetse voorgegaan en was natuurlik ook kaptein van die span wat in 1995 die Wêreldbeker gewen het.

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Francois Pienaar

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