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VIDEO: Lions rampant despite this Coetzee red card for knee to the head

Lions hooker Robbie Coetzee

Lions racked up their 10th consecutive Super Rugby victory with a 54-10 bonus-point victory over Southern Kings, despite having Robbie Coetzee sent-off after 30 minutes on Sunday.

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By the time Coetzee received his marching orders for charging into a ruck and hitting Chris Cloete’s head with his knee, the league leaders were already 12-3 up following tries from Andries Ferreira and Courtnall Skosan.

Ferreira went over in the 11th minute when the referee played an advantage that allowed the Lions to drive forward, and their second try was more fluid with Skosan collecting a neat pass from Warren Whiteley before running in to score.

Whiteley was again involved after 40 minutes when Kwagga Smith scored a superb try. The Springbok captain created space for Smith to run into before feeding him the ball and the flanker skilfully side-stepped a cover tackle to score.

Further tries followed from Malcolm Marx, Jacques van Rooyen, Smith and Faf de Klerk, before Andries Coetzee broke the Kings’ line and ran the length of the field to wrap up an emphatic victory.

Kings did prove that their high-flying opponents could be penetrated when Elton Jantjies, whose kicking was excellent throughout, had a pass intercepted by Luzuko Vulindlu and the winger broke through to score.

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But it was scant consolation for the visitors as Johan Ackermann’s side ran out comfortable winners.

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Having taken a 23-5 lead it was important to manage the game from there but Australia just couldnt do it. Conceding two tries before the break surrendering 12 points in the way they did was incredibly poor. The penalty for going in the side at the breakdown was just silly and allowed the Lions to get up field when 23-10 and some of the play in the 10 minutes before half time on defence was really not up to scratch. The Lions side has played in patches. They are not consistent and by no means have hit top form throughout this tour. When they have been in 5th gear the Aussies have had no answer and so it was the case in the last 20mins. The lack of game management comes directly down to an inexperienced backline, bad leadership, poor selection, a lack of killer instinct in a team desperately searching for gains against top opposition. They were underdone and should have had more warm up matches. The Wallabies spent the whole of last year improving the team and developing combinations to compete against the Lions. Schmidts selections has somehow seemingly countered his own preparation. After working so hard last year to improve the Wallabies have somehow come out like half-baked cookie, limp in most parts, crunchy in others but overall, an inconsistent texture and underwhelming taste that makes you wonder what could have been had you left it in for 5mins longer.

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