Rampaging Lions need to keep tempo
Whiteley happy with ‘complete first-half performance’
The gauntlet was thrown down for the Lions players when they returned from their unbeaten three-match tour of Australia last week. Their coaches wanted them to further up the ante‚ particularly the intensity in their game and the result was a 51-14 denouncement of the Bulls. To suggest the Bulls were blown off the park may be slightly off the mark — for that they needed to be on it first. The Lions played with a speed‚ intent and accuracy with which the Bulls are unfamiliar against South African opposition and the result was the most comprehensive beating yet they have suffered against their trans-Jukskei rivals. "We challenged the players in the week to lift the intensity‚" said coach Johan Ackermann. "It was probably our best 40 minutes‚ those first 40 minutes‚" the coach said about a first half in which the chasm between the two teams could not have been more glaring. The win meant the Lions are still in hot pursuit of the table-topping Crusaders. Ackermann needs no reminding tha...
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