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Lions battle back after Benetton scare
By PA
The Lions claimed a bonus point victory as they defeated United Rugby Championship opponents Benetton 37-29 in Johannesburg.
The South African side trailed by 14 points just before half-time, but they fought back impressively to claim a seventh win of their URC campaign.
Fly-half Jordan Hendrikse led the way, posting a 17-point haul through a try, two penalties and three conversions.
And there were also Lions touchdowns for wings Stean Pienaar and Edwill van der Merwe, lock Ruben Schoeman and scrum-half Morne van den Berg.
Benetton dominated the first period through full-back Rhyno Smith’s try double and a score from centre Filippo Drago, with Smith adding two conversions and fly-half Tomas Albornoz a drop-goal.
But they fell away after the break and did not score a point until the closing seconds when number eight Lorenzo Cannone crossed and Smith converted.
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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