August 6th, 2016 Story Of A Season IT COMES DOWN TO THIS We'll be honest, when we started this series a few months ago we didn't imagine that the Lions would be in the final. They swaggered into this...
July 23rd, 2016 Story Of A Season PREVIEW: LIONS V CRUSADERS As the story of the Lions’ 2016 Super Rugby season moves closer to its denouement, we’re able to look back at a wealth of information gleaned...
July 8th, 2016 Story Of A Season CHAPTER 14: CHICKENS, EGGS & SNOWBALLS What comes first? Can an insubstantial defence give rise to a good attack? Can a potent attack cause poor defence? The answer is yes, both things can...
May 27th, 2016 Story Of A Season CHAPTER 13: A DEEP DIVE INTO DEFENCE Someone once said there are no easy games in Super Rugby, but if we’re going to be honest then it's fair to say that some games are easier than...
May 13th, 2016 Story Of A Season CHAPTER 12: HOW TO BEAT THE BLUES Embed from Getty Images The Lions will be down and out after being eviscerated by the Hurricanes at Ellis Park two weeks ago....
May 6th, 2016 Story Of A Season CHAPTER 11: DOWN TO EARTH Just like a Swiss watch, the Lions’ offence is a beautiful, perfectly synchronised, harmonious machine. On Saturday the Hurricanes showed how to...
April 29th, 2016 Story Of A Season CHAPTER 10: TAKING STOCK With eight games played and seven to go it’s time to bring the Lions into the pits, crank them up on a hoist and take a look under the hood. We...
April 22nd, 2016 Story Of A Season CHAPTER 9: THE RIGHT DIRECTION There are things that lawyers like to do to the people they’re questioning that are the similar to the things that rugby coaches like to do to the...
April 15th, 2016 Story Of A Season CHAPTER 8: LEARNING TO KILL Nature, like rugby, is a bloody business. When a lion cub reaches a certain age its mother will seek out a herd, select a foal, isolate it and...
April 7th, 2016 Story Of A Season Chapter 7: Victims Of Their Own Ability On a chilly night in December of 2012 boxing’s pound-for-pound superstar Manny Pacquiao climbed through the ropes of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to...