Comments on: The Lions’ mental makeover

By: katman

katman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:31:20 +0000

@Joe Maher: Spoken like a true Lions man. No one will know our torture.

By: Joe Maher

Joe Maher — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:26:16 +0000

Mission impossible for poor old Gericke, I think.

Sadly, the Lions just don’t have the ‘cattle’ to perform on the field and will again be the laughing stock, the cellar dwellar.

As a dyed-in-the-wool Gautenger, I’m not about to switch allegiances, though. Best I can hope for is some positive, attacking rugby, perhaps jagging the occasional win.

And so we move towards another long and painful Super 14.

By: katman

katman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:31:10 +0000

“The ‘Kop Doctor’ has a history of working with successful teams”

That’s convenient. Sounds like this is his first real job then.

By: Grrrr....I'm a Lion!

Grrrr....I'm a Lion! — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:18:45 +0000

Why do I get this deja vu feeling… Oh yes! This was also said before the start of every Super14.

Start pulling fingers. If not all the ‘kop dokters’ in Gauteng won’t make a difference…

By: FireStraeuli

FireStraeuli — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:46:46 +0000

@RedLion: Heard that one 3 or 4 seasons ago, yet here we find ourselves again, when asked how the season will go for the Lions...'well, as you know (by now surely we all know) we're in a rebuilding phase at the Lions'...yeah yeah, we heard it all before.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:43:25 +0000

@RedLion: Hard to believe but 15 years ago, the Lions had 8 players in the '95 RWC Boks team Team: Dalton, B. Swart, Hannes Strydom, F Pienaar,Strauli, Hendricks, Hennie Le Roux and Japie Mulder, James Small could also been affiliated, a Transvaal an Wits product. And then there were Chris Rossouw, Kobus Wiese and Gavin Johnson added on Looking at the current Lions squad begs a question: are they kidding me?

By: Hondo

Hondo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:31:00 +0000

The mandatory ‘Talk the Talk’
All left is to see how the ‘Walk the Walk’ will progress and it isn’t gonna be easy: they lost Wepener, Albert, Ludik and Fourie recently, those are difficult to replace in one season.
The one serious threat that no one speaks about is that if the GL will finish at the bottom of the SA teams’ Super14 log, the S Kings will stake a claim for their Superrugby spot with the support of the ‘politicians’!

By: RedLion

RedLion — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:04:25 +0000

That’s right folks. Laugh all you want, make fun of my Lions but just remember he who laughs last (LIONS) laughs the loudest.

By: Grrrr....I'm a Lion!

Grrrr....I'm a Lion! — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:59:19 +0000

Less talk, more win…

By: Yetirat

Yetirat — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:47:51 +0000

If anyone can help them mentally it must be this man.

Who else would think of showing the Boks pictures and scenes from the Boer war to get them fired up for a final against England in the RWC?? Legendary!!

By: Blouste

Blouste — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:04:50 +0000

Jeez old Henning Gericke must have been prescribibng a lot of anti-depressants post 2007 S14 final …

By: groenie

groenie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:13:54 +0000

is Earl Rose playing this year?

Remove him and the mental strength of all the players will improve heaps!

By: Icemoney

Icemoney — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:01:52 +0000

“Psycho” dragon